In the summer of 2024, a robotic mission landed for the first time on the far side of the Moon. The Chinese Chang’e-6 lander planted a flag, dug up more than four pounds of rock and soil, and brought ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The basaltic meteorite is a piece of lunar rock that formed in a lava flow 2.35 billion years ago ...

American geologist and astronaut Harrison Hagan Schmitt takes rock samples from the surface of the moon during America's last lunar landing mission of the 20th century, Apollo 17, December 1972.

It’s hard to imagine, but the moon we all know and love hasn’t always been in the sky. Like all of us, the moon has an age. Until recently, our lunar neighbor has been estimated to be about 4 billion ...

When Neil Armstrong took his first steps on the moon 55 years ago, he also collected lunar rocks and soil along the way to bring back to Earth. At the time, there were 135 of them. Some of them were ...

UB students huddled in the Hochstetter Hall volcanology lab, passing around a plexiglass disk. Inside was what at first glance appeared to be unremarkable pebbles and dust but was actually some of the ...

Even though humans have pondered the moon since the first of us looked skyward, there is still much we still don’t know about it. One of these unsolved questions is its origin story. We think the moon ...

April 25 (UPI) --China is allowing six nations, including the United States, to examine moon rocks on loan from the 2020 Chinese Chang'e-5 lunar mission. China National Space Administration's Shan ...

Whether President Donald Trump still supports returning astronauts to the lunar surface remains to be seen, but one thing is ...