Moonrock analogs can be found right here on Earth, and Montana is now a major source of simulated lunar material for NASA. The mineral anorthosite is common on the Moon, but more difficult to find ...

The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 has acquired images showing some parts of the Stillwater Complex south of Nye, Montana back on August 10, 2018. These rocks span to about 30 miles or 50 ...

Collected during Apollo 17, a 3.5 billion year old basalt rock known as "The Children of the World" or "The Goodwill Sample" is displayed in the lunar lab at the NASA Johnson Space Center Monday, June ...

4.5 billion years ago, amid the chaos of the early solar system, the young Earth was rocked by a cataclysmic collision with another planet the size of Mars. The debris flung into space eventually ...

Data from India's recent Chandrayaan-3 mission supports the idea that an ocean of molten rock once covered the moon. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Graphical depiction of exotic igneous clasts in Chang’e-5 lunar regolith CREDIT IGCAS The Chang’e-5 mission touched down in the Mons Rümker region of the northern Oceanus Procellarum of the Moon and ...