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.

As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...

LISTER, mounted below Blue Ghost’s lower deck, measures the flow of heat from the moon's interior with a sophisticated ...

President Trump set the U.S. on a path to sending astronauts back to the lunar surface during his first term. Lately he has ...

The debris from this impact collected in an orbit around Earth to form the Moon. Lunar meteorite Dar al Gani 400. In 1998, this specimen was found in the Sahara Desert, in Libya. The Apollo missions ...

Could these Moon exploration missions have been ... NASA highlights the 382 kilograms of lunar soil and rock samples brought back by Apollo astronauts. Analyzed worldwide, these rocks display ...

A lunar rock sample collected in 1972 by Apollo 17 — the final U.S. moon mission — once held a place of honor on a shelf in President Biden's Oval Office. It was a gift from NASA, meant to symbolize ...

A lunar rock sample collected in 1972 by Apollo 17 — the final U.S. moon mission — once held a place of honor on a shelf in President Joe Biden's Oval Office. It was a gift from NASA ...