Sometimes I look at the Moon and realize how little I actually know about it—what it's made of and how it formed. In this video, I explore NASA's Johnson Space Center and their top-secret lab that ...

A set of instruments shut off almost 50 years ago are still producing useful results. It's the seismometers left by the Apollo missions to monitor moonquakes, which, as the name suggests, are ...

UB students huddled in the Hochstetter Hall volcanology lab, passing around a plexiglass disk. Inside was what at first glance appeared to be unremarkable pebbles and dust but was actually some of the ...

Tiny glass beads brought back by NASA's Apollo 17 astronauts are helping scientists uncover new clues about how the moon erupted billions of years ago. No one expected these glittering bits among the ...

UB students huddled in the Hochstetter Hall volcanology lab, passing around a plexiglass disk. Inside was what at first glance appeared to be unremarkable pebbles and dust but was actually some of the ...

Twelve men have walked on the Moon. While the rest of us remain Earth-bound, we’re able to learn about the Moon from the rocks these 12 astronauts brought back for scientific study. We have also found ...

American geologist and astronaut Harrison Hagan Schmitt takes rock samples from the surface of the moon during America's last lunar landing mission of the 20th century, Apollo 17, December 1972.

Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong drop rocks back from the moon in 1969. President Richard Nixon presented one moon rock to each of the 50 U.S. states. But many of those rocks have gone missing. Some ...

Magnetism on the moon has always been a bit confusing. Remote sensing probes have noted there is some magnetic signature, but far from the strong cocoon that surrounds Earth itself. Previous attempts ...