NASA needs a new wheel for its lunar vehicle, able to go 5x faster than the old design. The winning entry in this open ...

A problem during a moon landing meant that Lunar Outpost's rover couldn't deploy. But they're moving on towards bigger and better.

Japan achieved a historic lunar landing but the rover’s fate now hangs in uncertainty on the Moon’s surface. CVS, Walgreens pull back COVID vaccines in more than a dozen states following new ...

The crewmembers of the Apollo 13 mission step aboard the USS Iwo Jima, prime recovery ship for the mission, following splashdown and recovery operations in the South Pacific Ocean. Exiting the ...

The Apollo 17 mission, NASA’s final crewed expedition to the Moon in December 1972, returned with valuable lunar samples, including material from the “Light Mantle,” a bright and unusual deposit at ...

Analysis of previously untouched preserved core samples from the mysterious 'Light Mantle' landslide shed light on what caused this huge tumbling of rocks. A mysterious lunar landslide might be the ...

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Apollo 17 carried home a sealed tube of lunar soil in 1972. More than five decades later, that core has finally been opened and analyzed, and it is changing what scientists think about how a major ...

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 ...

More than 50 years after the last manned moon mission, the Apollo program is still making groundbreaking discoveries. Lunar rock collected by Apollo 17 is revealing more about the Light Mantle, a ...

In a bold, strategic move for the U.S., acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy announced plans on Aug. 5, 2025, to build a nuclear fission reactor for deployment on the lunar surface in 2030. Doing so ...