Soil-like pebbles in moon samples brought home by Apollo 16 astronauts have revealed new details about lunar history.

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On this day in history, Apollo 16 launches to the moon (CBS Newspath file footage) ...

The Apollo 16 Mission landed in and explored Descartes Highlands on the moon. Due to numerous mechanical concerns, the Apollo 16 Mission returned to Earth one day earlier than originally was planned.

NASA's Apollo missions brought back moon rock samples for scientists to study. We've learned a great deal over the ensuing decades, but one enduring mystery remains. Many of those lunar samples ...

While analyzing samples collected during the Apollo 16 mission, Nottingham and his colleagues used mass spectrometry techniques to catalog various noble gasses and their abundance in the samples ...