Whether Artemis ultimately fulfills its promise of sustained lunar exploration, or is reshaped by politics, budgets and ...

Kicking off the year's cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts to visit in more than 50 years, as well as a ...

Dec. 11 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1816, Indiana joined the United States as its 19th state. In 1936, Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.

Apollo 17 - The Final Mission Cernan commanded Apollo 17, which launched on December 6, 1972—the first manned nighttime launch. He landed the lunar module "Challenger" at Taurus-Littrow with geologist ...

Scientists have discovered that moonquakes, not meteoroids, are responsible for shifting terrain near the Apollo 17 landing site. Their analysis points to a still-active fault that has been generating ...

Bill Piccinni, 67, was riding his bike by the Franklin Institute when something halted his pedaling. The lunar module looked as if King Kong had ripped it in half, he said. Concerned, he asked Curious ...

A team of scientists from Brown University has uncovered new sulfur isotopes unlike any found on Earth. The researchers analyzed lunar samples that had remained unopened since they were collected by ...

More than 50 years after the Apollo 17 Moon rocks returned to Earth, researchers are still uncovered surprising new details about their composition. Reading time 3 minutes Science has come a long way ...

Sealed Apollo 17 samples analyzed with new techniques reveal that the Moon’s interior contains sulfur isotopes unlike those found on Earth, according to research led by a Brown University scientist.

While Earth and Mars are known for their intense surface quakes, other terrestrial bodies in our solar system also feature surface quakes — including the Moon. With NASA preparing to return humans to ...