Officially, Apollo 17 was the last mission to the Moon. But a retired astronaut claims Apollo 20 was real—and its mission was ...

A new study reveals that seismic activity on the Moon may threaten the stability of future long-term infrastructure. A recent study found that ground shaking caused by moonquakes, not meteorite ...

The small chunk of rock could be telling us that many of the moon’s largest impacts happened over 4.25 billion years ago.

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 ...

The Moon plays a critical role in reconstructing Earth’s history. Because our planet’s oldest surface layers have been erased ...

When Apollo 17 astronauts collected a small rock from the moon more than 50 years ago, they had no way of knowing it would ...

Fifty years ago, the last human set foot on the Moon. The Apollo 17 mission brought back a wealth of lunar samples, but some were left untouched until now. The UK’s National History Museum researchers ...

NASA has announced plans to launch its lunar mission sooner than expected as the first crewed flight in its Artemis II program is expected to make the trip around the moon and back as soon ...

Agency officials are eyeing a February 5 launch for the mission that will send four astronauts around the Moon, but can they ...

After the release of his book The Last Man on the Moon in 2007, which chronicled his career and role as the last astronaut on the moon during Apollo 17 in 1972, Gene Cernan was pitched a lot of ideas ...

Mason, Brian Harold, Jacobson, S., Nelen, J. A., Melson, William G., and Simkin, Thomas E. 1974. "Regolith Compositions from the Apollo 17 Mission." In Lunar Science ...