A tiny sample of the Moon locked away for more than 50 years turns out to have been hiding an astronomical secret.

Scientists have uncovered a surprising discovery within lunar rocks collected over five decades ago. A tiny sample of the ...

NASA’s Apollo missions in the 1960s and ’70s served not only to land Americans on the lunar surface but to answer key questions about the moon that could be answered only by going there. As often ...

In the vast realm of space exploration, new discoveries often emerge from old data. Thanks to advanced algorithms and keen observers, the seismic activities of our closest celestial neighbor, the Moon ...

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On Jan. 28, 2024, the X account Historic Videos shared footage of Apollo 17 astronauts launching from the lunar surface on Dec. 14 1972. The video, which was taken from outside the spacecraft and ...

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When they went to the moon, Apollo astronauts placed seismometers on the surface. Those instruments strikingly revealed that the moon experiences moonquakes, just as the Earth experiences earthquakes.