With NASA preparing to return humans to the lunar surface as part of the Artemis program, scientists and engineers are ...

LIBERTY — The historic late 1972 launch of the Apollo 17 mission to the moon represented more than a space expedition to merely collect rock samples from the lunar landscape while making history ...

The Apollo 17 mission, NASA’s final crewed expedition to the Moon in December 1972, returned with valuable lunar samples, including material from the “Light Mantle,” a bright and unusual deposit at ...

The samples were sealed until technology improved enough to study them. Now, they may have helped solve a lunar mystery.

A mysterious lunar landslide might have been caused by debris from a faraway crater-forming impact, new analyses of Apollo 17 ...

Of the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s, just five remain.

Neil Armstrong almost made a mistake. He had found an interesting rock sticking out of a formation. Curious to see what the ...

More than 50 years after the last manned moon mission, the Apollo program is still making groundbreaking discoveries.

The rock core was studied using advanced micro-CT scanning to analyze its contents in fine detail, an imaging technology that ...

NASA has unveiled a new facility in Houston integral to its upcoming Artemis lunar missions launching (with astronauts) from Florida.