Chinese scientists have made a big discovery that could help future astronauts live on the Moon by creating water from lunar soil. Their groundbreaking method was published in a scientific journal and is getting a lot of attention because it might solve one of the biggest challenges of setting up long-term bases on the Moon: the lack of water.

The Moon doesn’t have natural sources of water like Earth does. While some past missions have found ice at the Moon’s poles and in dark craters, m...