For the first time in more than 40 years, NASA has opened up a pristine sample of moon dirt and rocks that was collected during the Apollo missions. Scientists hope… Read More WASHINGTON, D.C. — An ...

Widely acknowledged as one of the most widely distributed photographic images in existence, the "Blue Marble" was photographed by Apollo 17's Harrison Schmitt just a few hours after a trans lunar ...

Agnew, respectively. Omega later made more "Tribute" watches for Apollo 14 through Apollo 17 crews, as well as sold 976 pieces to the public (the retail version replaced the personalized info on ...

Recreating this process in the lab using Apollo 17 lunar dust, researchers found evidence of water formation. Researchers recreated this process on Earth by simulating the solar wind in a ...

Former NASA astronaut José M. Hernández’s 2025 Science Blast STEAAM Initiative: "A Million Miles Away," returned to ...

"With only lunar soil and a basic ingredient from the sun — which is always spitting out hydrogen — there's a possibility of ...

For years, scientists have been puzzled over how water can exist on the moon, which is a place with no atmosphere, no air, and bone-dry soil. With scorching sunlight during the day and freezing ...

"I'll tell you," said astronaut Harrison Schmitt as the Apollo 17 hurtled towards the Moon, "if there ever was a fragile-appearing piece of blue in space, it's the Earth right now". It was ...

The 1972 Blue Marble image, taken by astronauts in the Apollo 17 spacecraft, gave us another unique perspective of our planet, and its frailty, in its entirety. Today, the bird’s-eye view of an ...

The "Blue Marble" was the first photograph of the whole Earth and the only one ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of the planet reveal visible changes to the Earth's surface.

led a lab experiment observing the effects of simulated solar wind on two samples of loose regolith brought to Earth by the Apollo 17 mission. One of the samples was dug from a scar-like trench ...