Since the Apollo era, the lunar samples have been stored at NASA's Johnson Space Centre in Houston and are available for research. All lunar samples analysed in the laboratory in Göttingen were ...

Recently released documents reveal how Ireland struggled to find homes for two moon rock displays gifted by the U.S.

The space agency will provide a broadcast update on the marquee mission that is intended to recover samples of Martian rock ...

Material from asteroid Ryugu riddled with earthly microbes provides a cautionary tale for scientists seeking signs of alien ...

Following the historic year of 1969 that saw two successful Moon landings, 1970 opened on a more sober note. Ever-tightening ...

The team analyzed water in nine samples from the Apollo lunar mission, using a high-precision triple oxygen isotope technique. This method, developed by Dr. Morgan Nunn Martinez of the University ...

Much of what researchers know about the Moon's composition can be attributed to samples collected during NASA's Apollo missions. When those bits of lunar rock were brought back to Earth ...

Lunar rocks retrieved by China’s Chang’e-5 mission reveal that the moon’s magnetic field lasted much longer than scientists previously thought, offering new perspectives on planetary evolution and ...