Back in 2002, interns Thad Roberts and Tiffany Fowler worked in the building where NASA stores most of the moon rocks it has. They took a 600-pound safe containing about 100 grams of moon samples ...

Many geochemists, like my colleague Thorsten Kleine, have suggested (not unreasonably) that the age of these rocks is the same as the age of the moon. But people like Alessandro Morbidelli ...

In 2020, the Chang’e-5 spacecraft returned moon rocks from the near side, the first since those collected by NASA’s Apollo astronauts and Soviet Union spacecraft in the 1970s. The Chang’e-4 ...

The strength of the lunar magnetic field may have shot up about 2.8 billion years ago, a Chinese study of samples from the far side of the moon suggests ... 4mm-sized basalt rock fragments ...

The research, published in the journal Nature, argues for an earlier formation date of the Moon, indicating that rock samples could be from a much earlier period but their "remelted" surfaces are ...

Nasa is paying a Colorado-based company $1 (£0.74) to collect a small sample of rocks from the moon. Lunar Outpost is among four firms awarded contracts to retrieve lunar regolith, or moon soil ...

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.