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 ...

Because the soil is similar to that found on Mars and the moon, astronauts practiced collecting soil samples and driving lunar vehicles.

An unassuming rock collected from the surface of the moon over 50 years ago by the Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt could completely alter what we thought we knew about the early ...

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 deliberately ...

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"My first thought was, 'holy shmolies, that can't be right'. These are just very surprising results." Scientists have found that a sample of the moon brought to Earth in 1972 by Apollo 17 astronauts ...

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The small chunk of rock could be telling us that many of the moon’s largest impacts happened over 4.25 billion years ago. An unassuming rock collected from the surface of the moon over 50 years ago by ...