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 ...

While analyzing samples collected during the Apollo 16 mission, Nottingham and ... these "regolith breccias" — a result of moon dust fusing into rock under the sheer force of asteroid impacts ...

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 ...

Though NASA expected their complicated machines would not always work right, the first deaths in the space program still came as a shock -- because the fatal mishap occurred on the ground.

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

Last year, a spacecraft built by Intuitive Machines through a NASA-sponsored program put the U.S. back on the moon for the first time since the end of the Apollo ... of lunar rocks and dirt.

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 ...