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.

New research from scientists with the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and published in the journal Science found that ...

are the first to return lunar rocks to Earth since the 1970s. Together they are building on what scientists learned from Apollo-era missions, helping to unravel mysteries about how the Moon was ...

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 ...

The last time NASA collected data on the heat emerging from the moon's interior was when the space agency still sent ...

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.

Twelve astronauts explore the surface over six missions, before the program ends with Apollo 17 in ... in 2024 delivers rocks and soil from the less explored part of the moon ...

President Trump set the U.S. on a path to sending astronauts back to the lunar surface during his first term. Lately he has ...

Dust and rocks residing on the surface of the moon take a beating in space. Without a protective magnetosphere and atmosphere ...