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 ...

Apollo 17, the final crewed lunar landing mission, aimed to collect highland samples crucial for completing the understanding of lunar evolution, unlike previous missions focused on lowland maria.

It's been more than 50 years since astronauts last went to the moon, and yet few NASA missions stir the kind of excitement that the Apollo program once did. But now, NASA has new moon plans. The ...

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 ...