As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...
A piece of moon rock gifted to Ireland following NASA's historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969 was tragically destroyed in a fire, newly uncovered documents from Ireland's National Archives reveal.
Nobody ever accused the Apollo program of failing to deliver the goods. There were the 842 pounds of moon rocks and the raft of scientific spinoffs and the deep thrills that every one of the 11 ...
With one exception, subsequent Apollo missions put ten more men on the moon. Pete Conrad, Dick Gordon and Alan Bean collected rocks from the Ocean of Storms on Apollo 12. Alan Shepard who had been ...
LISTER, mounted below Blue Ghost’s lower deck, measures the flow of heat from the moon's interior with a sophisticated ...
Author Charles Fishman talks about how the U.S. pulled off the feat of landing astronauts on the moon—plus moon rocks, lunar telescopes and more.
While parts of the Earth saw a total lunar eclipse, the Blue Ghost lunar lander captured stunning imagery of a solar eclipse on Friday. See the rare view here.
President Trump set the U.S. on a path to sending astronauts back to the lunar surface during his first term. Lately he has ...
Could these Moon exploration missions have been ... NASA highlights the 382 kilograms of lunar soil and rock samples brought back by Apollo astronauts. Analyzed worldwide, these rocks display ...
People often remember the time of the moon landing as one of the country’s finest moments, an age when things were simpler, better, more hopeful. Yet Apollo 11 was not the embodiment of a grand ...