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

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

Whether President Donald Trump still supports returning astronauts to the lunar surface remains to be seen, but one thing is ...

If the scientists could very precisely measure the proportions of lutetium and halfnium in moon rocks compared to other ...

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

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

following another successful Apollo mission. A memo discussing the original Moon rock notes: “This piece was given on September 4 1973, on the advice of the Department of Education, to the ...

The remelting would have been a gradual process with rocks mainly being superheated just below the crust. The moon's ... NASA's Apollo missions. In the new study, published Dec. 18 in the journal ...

A NASA spokesperson confirmed the moon rock is being returned to the space agency in an email to collectSPACE.com. The lunar sample, which was brought back to Earth by the last Apollo astronauts ...

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.