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

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

Trump’s new decor of the Oval Office could reflect the president’s Mars-bias, chucking the lunar rock out of the White House.

A moon rock that symbolized NASA’s lunar ambitions under former President Joe Biden has been removed from the Oval Office since President Donald Trump took office in January 2025. The lunar ...

A moon rock signifying NASA's lunar ambitions had ... chipped the sample from a large boulder at the base of a mountainous feature in the Taurus-Littrow Valley, the mission's exploration site.

The 3.9-billion-year-old moon rock, officially known as lunar sample 76015,143, had been displayed in the Oval Office since January 20, 2021. (Image credit: USA Today) A moon rock that symbolized ...

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.

By Becky Ferreira For a few months last fall, a school-bus-size space rock named 2024 PT5 gained fame as Earth’s new “mini-moon.” Astronomers rushed to study the object while it was still ...