Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt collecting samples on the Moon on 11 December 1972. (NASA) When Apollo 11 touched ...

Prior moon rock samples, including from Apollo, seem heavily influenced by one impact. The farside samples tweak the story.

More than 50 years after the last manned moon mission, the Apollo program is still making groundbreaking discoveries. Lunar rock collected by Apollo 17 is revealing more about the Light Mantle, a ...

Inside a locked vault at Johnson Space Center is treasure few have seen and fewer have touched. The restricted lab is home to hundreds of pounds of moon rocks collected by Apollo astronauts close to a ...

The draft remains filed away in the National Archives as an eerie reminder of what could have been.

When astronauts returned from NASA’s final Apollo Moon mission in 1972, some of the samples they collected were sealed and carefully stored away in the hope that future researchers using advanced ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Apollo rocks show the moon’s magnetic field experienced intense spikes 3 billion to 4 billion years ago that ...

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After decades of analyzing reams of lunar rocks back here on Earth, the canonical view of the moon was that it was anhydrous; ...

John F. Kennedy's vision led U.S. to the moon with Houston embracing its role. The moon landing, which came after years of ...

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