A piece of moon rock gifted to Ireland following NASA's historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969 was tragically destroyed in a fire, newly uncovered documents from Ireland's National Archives reveal.

As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...

LISTER, mounted below Blue Ghost’s lower deck, measures the flow of heat from the moon's interior with a sophisticated ...

President Trump set the U.S. on a path to sending astronauts back to the lunar surface during his first term. Lately he has ...

The debris from this impact collected in an orbit around Earth to form the Moon. Lunar meteorite Dar al Gani 400. In 1998, this specimen was found in the Sahara Desert, in Libya. The Apollo missions ...

The astronauts of Apollo 8 were the first men to see the far side of the moon with their own eyes, without the aid of optical devices. From their orbital altitude of 69 statute miles, Frank Borman ...

A lunar rock sample collected in 1972 by Apollo 17 — the final U.S. moon mission — once held a place of honor on a shelf in President Biden's Oval Office. It was a gift from NASA, meant to symbolize ...

A lunar rock sample collected in 1972 by Apollo 17 — the final U.S. moon mission — once held a place of honor on a shelf in President Joe Biden's Oval Office. It was a gift from NASA ...