An unassuming rock collected from the surface of the moon over 50 years ago by the Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt could completely alter what we thought we knew about the early ...

Now, a research team led by a Brown University professor has done just that. In a study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, researchers report a sulfuric surprise in rock ...

[Apollo 17] THE EARTH ABOVE LM CHALLENGER: last seen by humans from the surface of another world (NASA's own copy, used and annotated, for the preparation of its final Apollo science report), 1972 ...

For more than six decades, NASA has been the world’s lodestar for exploration. We designed the rockets, trained the astronauts and landed on the moon when the idea was barely a decade old. But ...

It's been more than 50 years since astronauts last went to the moon, and yet few NASA missions stir the kind of excitement that the Apollo program once did. But now, NASA has new moon plans. The ...