Sophisticated analysis of a rock sample taken from the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission revealed new information about the complex cooling and evolutionary history of the Moon. The findings, from ...

NASA scientists opened an untouched rock and soil sample from the Moon returned to Earth on Apollo 17, marking the first time in more than 40 years a pristine sample of rock and regolith from the ...

Nearly 50 years after it was collected, a lunar sample from the Apollo 17 mission has finally been opened at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. It's one of the last unopened samples from the ...

Moon becomes brighter for experts, with new insights gathered from the Apollo 17 lunar sample. Published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, these insights shed light on the mysterious ...

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The Moon’s crater-covered countenance was previously thought to be a youthful 4.42 billion years old, give or take about 10 million years. But now, samples of crystals taken from the rocky satellite ...

What can sulfur in the Moon’s mantle teach scientists about the Moon’s formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets hopes to address ...

After sitting untouched in storage for nearly 50 years, lunar samples collected during the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions will be studied for the first time, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine ...

“It’s remarkable to think that the samples Apollo 16 brought back more than half a century ago still have secrets to reveal about the moon’s history,” said Mark Nottingham, author of a landmark paper ...

A team of researchers analyzing lunar samples acquired during the Apollo missions has discovered a key ingredient that may lead to an altering of the general understanding of the Moon's composition.

For more than half a century, scientists pictured the Moon as an almost fully reduced world where iron stayed locked in low-oxygen states. That idea came from Apollo samples, which showed that solar ...