Analysis of previously untouched preserved core samples from the mysterious 'Light Mantle' landslide shed light on what ...

WASHINGTON -- The nation's capital celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing in the most patriotic way possible: by projecting it onto the Washington Monument. All week, images ...

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 ...

For decades, scientists have considered the moon a dead world—a silent, unchanging landscape where nothing stirs. However, a ...

you’ll be able to glimpse features like the Apollo 15 and Apollo 17 landing sites, as well as the Descartes Highlands. According to NASA, moon phases are caused by the 29.5-day cycle of the moon’s ...

Weather permitting, you can find tonight’s waxing gibbous moon halfway up in the south at sunset. That’s its peak height for tonight. In the coming week, as it thickens to its fullest phase, it will ...

Apollo 17 Astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt samples the boulder at Station 7 located at the base of North Massif in the Taurus-Littrow valley. This large boulder was dislodged by a strong moonquake that ...

Ron Howard's mishap was Kevin Bacon's gain – and now the story is resurfacing as 'Apollo 13' returns to theaters.

In his latest Night Sky column, Inverclyde astronomer Stephen McAllister takes Tele readers back to the historic first Moon landing in the summer ...