are the first to return lunar rocks to Earth since the 1970s. Together they are building on what scientists learned from Apollo-era missions, helping to unravel mysteries about how the Moon was ...

The Oak Ridge site created 16 rock boxes for NASA, and No. 1008 was used in November 1969 by Pete Conrad and Alan L. Bean during the Apollo 12 moon landing. Muir-Harmony says that because NASA ...

A piece of moon rock gifted to Ireland following NASA's historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969 was tragically destroyed in a fire, newly uncovered documents from Ireland's National Archives reveal.

A NASA spokesperson confirmed the moon rock is being returned to the space agency in an email to collectSPACE.com. The lunar sample, which was brought back to Earth by the last Apollo astronauts ...

Where the astronauts sat in the Apollo Lunar Module may have profoundly impacted the way the experience of walking on the ...

But we don't know exactly when or how. Now, scientists have made new measurements on moon rocks from the Apollo missions to set a date for the time the moon solidified: 4.43 billion years ago.

Recent photos of Trump at his desk confirm that the moon rock, collected during the Apollo missions, is no longer a fixture in the Oval Office. Instead, the rock is set to be returned to NASA this ...

But, since President Donald Trump took office in January, the moon rock collected during the iconic Apollo missions has been noticeably absent. Recent photos of Trump at his desk show that the ...