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 ...

A startup company wants to establish mining operations on the moon to extract a rare isotope needed for future quantum ...

There were the 842 pounds of moon rocks and the raft of scientific ... and Charlie Duke did not long before their April 16, 1972 liftoff. The full book Apollo VII – XVII by Simon Phillipson ...

Apollo 16 astronaut and moon walker Charlie Duke left a family photo on the lunar surface in 1972. It’s long gone, but a digital copy is headed back in a data storage payload aboard Intuitive ...

Lunar Orbiter 2 and Apollo 16 both imaged the Ranger 8 impact site at relatively low resolution in 1966 and 1972, respectively. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter imaged the crash site in greater ...

The debris from this impact collected in an orbit around Earth to form the Moon. Lunar meteorite Dar al Gani 400. In 1998, this specimen was found in the Sahara Desert, in Libya. The Apollo missions ...