Tiny glass beads brought back by NASA's Apollo 17 astronauts are helping scientists uncover new clues about how the moon ...

When Apollo astronauts stumbled across shimmering orange beads on the moon, they had no idea they were gazing at ancient ...

Scientists may be able to use tiny glass beads found on the lunar surface to uncover more details about the Moon's secret ...

Tiny, orange glass beads discovered on the moon during the Apollo era may reveal an untold history of lunar volcanism.

These glass beads, obtained by Chang’e-5 on the moon, may be no more than tens of micrometers in diameter. Beijing SHRIMP Center, Institute of Geology, CAGS Though the team found a large span of ...

Therefore, the impact glass beads can be replenished with water on ... Scientists have theorized there may be large deposits of water ice at the moon’s poles since the Apollo era.

March 27 (Reuters) - Glass beads spawned in violent impacts from space rocks on the lunar surface have been found to have water trapped inside, offering what scientists describe as a potential ...

“The moon is constantly bombarded with impactors – for example micrometeoroids and large meteoroids – which produce impact glass beads during high-energy flash-heating events,” said ...

A potential solution could come from tiny glass beads that previous researchers used ... into small (less than 0.85 millimeters wide) and large (0.85 to 2 millimeters wide) particles.