Apollo 17 glass beads reveal three global lunar bombardment epochs — from 3.7 billion years to just 150 million years ago — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt is photographed standing next to a huge, split lunar boulder during the third Apollo 17 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The last three men to travel to the moon made it safe back to Earth 50 years ago today as the Apollo 17 crew splashed down in the ...

NASA's Apollo program transformed a series of experimental rocket launches into six successful crewed Moon landings, ...

Schmitt is seen collecting Moon samples by a large lunar boulder, with part of the Lunar Rover in the foreground. Apollo 17, the sixth and last manned mission to the Moon, with astronauts Eugene ...

Astronauts from NASA said goodbye to the moon for the last time on Dec. 14, 1972. The somberness of the anniversary is offset by the scenes of Artemis I’s recently concluded mission. Apollo 17, left, ...

“The craters at about 10 to 15 meters in diameter seem to have somewhat more blocky material in their rims but they're not clear-cut blocky rim craters,” Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17’s Lunar Module ...

When Apollo 17 astronauts collected a small rock from the moon more than 50 years ago, they had no way of knowing it would still be challenging scientists' understanding of lunar history today. The ...

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Dermot Gethings is vice chair of the Preston & District Astronomical Society Nearly 54 years ago, Apollo 17 blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, bound for the moon. Standing alongside ...

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