As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...

so it sat in a dusty basement for three years. It was not until 1973, when the US donated a second lunar rock to Ireland following their final successful Moon landing with Apollo 17, that the ...

Its official name is the Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container No. 1008, but everyone, including Teasel Muir-Harmony, curator ...

The moon rock signifying NASA's lunar ambitions had adorned Joe Biden's Oval Office throughout his entire presidential ...

Back in 2002, interns Thad Roberts and Tiffany Fowler worked in the building where NASA stores most of the moon rocks it has. They took a 600-pound safe containing about 100 grams of moon samples ...

But we don't know exactly when or how. Now, scientists have made new measurements on moon rocks from the Apollo missions to set a date for the time the moon solidified: 4.43 billion years ago.

No person has been back to the moon since 1972, though a few rovers have trundled over the dusty landscape ... dark and light of lunar craters. Moon rocks are nearly identical to Earth rocks ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely referred to as a "mini-moon." Turns out the lunar-inspired moniker may have been more accurate than we realized.