Three developments stand out that will make the return to the moon effort different from the first time we visited Earth’s ...

A mysterious lunar landslide might have been caused by debris from a faraway crater-forming impact, new analyses of Apollo 17 ...

LIBERTY — The historic late 1972 launch of the Apollo 17 mission to the moon represented more than a space expedition to merely collect rock samples from the lunar landscape while making history: It ...

The beads are over 3.3 billion years old, and date from the formation of the "Man in the Moon." ...

An unassuming rock collected from the surface of the moon over 50 years ago by the Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt could completely alter what we thought we knew about the early ...

Lunar dust collected by Apollo 17 astronauts in the 1970s has revealed that the moon is 40 million years older than previously believed. After landing on the moon on December 11, 1972, NASA astronauts ...

Ron Evans fell sound asleep in the command module of Apollo 17 when he and his crewmates were waiting to take off. It wasn’t easy to doze off in an Apollo spacecraft, least of all when you’re flat on ...

If flying to the Moon were like swimming the English Channel, no one in the 53 years since Apollo 17 splashed down in the ...

Artemis II prepares for launch in early February, marking the first crewed mission towards the moon since Apollo 17.

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