Some lunar rocks have left scientists puzzled for decades. Despite the Moon having no global magnetic field today, samples collected during NASA’s Apollo missions and data from orbiting spacecraft ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The moon is sometimes called "two-faced" because the surface of its side perpetually facing away from Earth looks so different than its side always facing our planet. And the ...

For decades, scientists have been trying to understand why some rocks on the moon are strongly magnetized even though the moon has no magnetic field today. Moon rocks brought to Earth during NASA's ...

A 2.35-billion-year-old Moon rock that fell to Earth in Africa is rewriting what we know about lunar volcanism. This rare meteorite, studied by UK scientists and unveiled at a major geochemistry ...

Tiny glass beads brought back by NASA's Apollo 17 astronauts are helping scientists uncover new clues about how the moon erupted billions of years ago. No one expected these glittering bits among the ...

They sit two and two, all eyes on the big screen, just like mission control. But their mission isn’t to get man into outer space, but to help figure out if we can grow food once we get there. "I would ...

The small chunk of rock could be telling us that many of the moon’s largest impacts happened over 4.25 billion years ago. An unassuming rock collected from the surface of the moon over 50 years ago by ...