"It's remarkable to think that the samples Apollo 16 brought back more than half a century ago still have secrets to reveal about the moon's history, and that they could yet help shape how we ...

For the first time in history, scientists have analyzed actual samples from the lunar farside—thanks to China’s Chang’e-6 ...

Its official name is the Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container No. 1008 ... The Oak Ridge site created 16 rock boxes for NASA, and No. 1008 was used in November 1969 by Pete Conrad and Alan ...

The mission was the first to collect samples from the far side of the moon and return them to the Earth. For this new study, the research team obtained 2 grams of the soil for testing. The ...

In a paper published in National Science Review, a research team from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese ...

Chinese scientists analyzing samples from the Moon’s farside have uncovered that its mantle holds significantly less water ...

Recent findings from samples collected by China's Chang'e 6 mission have provided valuable insights into the history of the moon, particularly its far side. The Chang'e 6 mission launched in early ...

Following the completion of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost mission on March 16, the era of private lunar landers ... The only samples on Earth came during the Apollo missions, and they showed ...

Based at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division, or ARES, ...