New research using moon rocks from the Apollo missions has revealed hidden dangers facing future astronauts. The study, ...

Apollo 16 launched to the moon! Apollo 16 was NASA's fifth lunar landing and the penultimate mission of the entire Apollo ...

NASA is celebrating the 53rd anniversary of the Apollo 16 mission which touched down on the Moon on April 21. Besides being ...

NASA's LunaRecycle Challenge, offering a $3 million prize, seeks innovative solutions to transform the 96 bags of human waste ...

The Oak Ridge site created 16 rock boxes for NASA, and No. 1008 was used in November 1969 by Pete Conrad and Alan L. Bean during the Apollo 12 moon landing. Muir-Harmony says that because NASA ...

Before the crew of Apollo 11 brought back the first moon rocks, many thought such artifacts might first be found by a 12-year-old from Iowa. Amazingly, there was a time when people were betting on ...

Apollo astronauts made six successful landings on the moon. In their missions, they retrieved rock samples and other scientific samples to return to Earth. Because of limited storage space on the ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

they might have thought he was there to rob them of their moon rock, given the attention he paid to where the surveillance cameras were and what was protecting the Apollo 11 lunar sample from ...

(CBS) – On this day in history, April 16, 1972, the Apollo 16 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Astronauts John Young and Charles Duke spent a record-breaking 71 hours on the moon. The ...

The lab test has provided compelling evidence that the detected OH is not a result of Earthly contamination but formed directly on the Moon when the solar wind collides with the lunar surface ...