Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists continue to piece together the moon's complex history using lunar samples collected during NASA's Apollo missions over ...

The moon floating in the night sky.It looks so close that we sometimes forget, but humanity has actually traveled to that ...

Samples collected from the surface of the moon by the crew of Apollo 16 more than 50 years ago have helped scientists reconstruct billions of years of lunar history. The research team's findings, ...

Apollo 16 commander John W. Young had a busy first day on the Moon when, on April 21, 1972, he briefly jumped into the air while saluting the American flag, which was captured on camera by lunar ...

In 1972, Apollo 16 astronaut and moon walker Charlie Duke left a family photo on the lunar surface. Today that photo is long gone. But Duke’s visage is heading back to the moon this week, in a novel ...

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