In 1972, Apollo 17 landed on the moon. It was the final Apollo lunar landing. Ron Evans was the command module pilot and ...

On Dec. 11, 1972, Apollo 17 became the last mission to launch humans on the moon. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on ...

As a superpower Space Race II speeds up, the U.S. needs to launch a national emergency campaign to beat China in landing ...

Destination Moon' follows a real-life astronaut mission that ended tragically — and the lessons learned for future Apollo ...

This means that the lunar regolith could still hold a very long-term record of Earth's atmospheric history, which in turn ...

Apollo lunar samples show how space weathering alters the Moon’s surface over time, affecting ultraviolet light reflection and interpretation of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data.

Scientists have discovered that moonquakes, not meteoroids, are responsible for shifting terrain near the Apollo 17 landing ...

One of the oldest unsolved riddles in planetary science concerns the origin of the moon. Over a century ago, George Darwin ...

The Apollo 11 mission to the moon is one of the most intense stories of survival. The whole trip was nearly a disaster, and ...

Breaking Achievement. Apollo 17 set multiple records: longest manned lunar landing flight (301 hours 51 minutes), longest lunar surface activities (22 hours 6 m ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists are collaborating with researchers at UT San Antonio to study how space ...