Inside a giant sphere, the engineers pored over their equipment. Before them stood a silvery metal contraption swathed in colourful wires – a box that they hope will one day make oxygen on the moon.

A team of engineers is advancing space innovation by developing a groundbreaking machine to produce oxygen on the moon. The project ... abrasive texture of the regolith,” said White to BBC.

Whether out-of-the-box thinking or a sign of desperation, scientists on Wednesday proposed the regular transport of moon dust to a gravity point between Earth and Sun to temper the ravages of ...