Scientists continue to piece together the moon's complex history using lunar samples collected during NASA's Apollo missions over half a century ago. A fresh analysis of lunar dust collected by ...

Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the Apollo 11 lunar samples, themselves. The four moon pebbles, which were embedded in a single lucite ball and mounted to a wooden podium together with ...

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin stands on the moon facing a U.S. flag during the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969. Sample from this mission were gifted to Ireland and later destroyed in a fire. Astronaut Buzz ...

As humankind imagines living off-planet — on the moon, Mars and beyond — the question of how to sustain life revolves around the physical necessities of oxygen, food and water. We know there is water ...

having samples of another planet on Earth will allow scientists to learn much more than what they can do remotely with rovers (just look at the Apollo samples, which continue to reveal new ...

The study suggests that the Moon likely formed largely from Earth's mantle material — with minimal involvement from Theia.

A recent study by researchers from the University of Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research has ...

Although the moon no longer generates a magnetic field, evidence suggests it once did. Samples from NASA’s Apollo missions indicated that over three billion years ago, the moon's magnetic field was as ...

A research team from the University of Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) has discovered another piece in the puzzle of the formation of the Moon and water on Earth ...