When the crew of Apollo 17 left the lunar surface and returned to Earth in December 1972, they brought with them samples of a particularly interesting area of the Moon. Those samples were ...

After sitting untouched in storage for nearly 50 years, lunar samples collected during the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions will be studied for the first time, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine ...

When astronauts returned from NASA's final Apollo moon mission in 1972, some of the samples they collected were sealed and carefully stored away in the hope that future researchers using ...

From helium-3 energy to a new space race, the Apollo 17 astronaut explains why returning to the moon matters now.

A half century after NASA's Apollo 17 lunar module lifted off the Moon's northeastern near side quadrant, planetary ...

A half century after NASA's Apollo 17 lunar module lifted off the moon's northeastern near side quadrant, planetary ...