Whether Artemis ultimately fulfills its promise of sustained lunar exploration, or is reshaped by politics, budgets and ...

(WPTA) - On December 19, 1972, Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific, concluding the Apollo program of crewed lunar landings. Apollo 17 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on December 7 ...

Dec. 11 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1816, Indiana joined the United States as its 19th state. In 1936, Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.

Apollo 17 - The Final Mission Cernan commanded Apollo 17, which launched on December 6, 1972—the first manned nighttime launch. He landed the lunar module "Challenger" at Taurus-Littrow with geologist ...

The last human moon landing occurred more than 50 years ago when NASA’s Apollo 17 mission touched down on the lunar surface, and U.S. astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt collected samples ...

Scientists have discovered that moonquakes, not meteoroids, are responsible for shifting terrain near the Apollo 17 landing site. Their analysis points to a still-active fault that has been generating ...

A team of scientists from Brown University has uncovered new sulfur isotopes unlike any found on Earth. The researchers analyzed lunar samples that had remained unopened since they were collected by ...

The leading hypotheses for the origin of the Moon call for a giant impact event between proto-Earth and a separate impactor called Theia. The efficiency of mixing material among these two planetary ...

More than 50 years after the Apollo 17 Moon rocks returned to Earth, researchers are still uncovered surprising new details about their composition. Reading time 3 minutes Science has come a long way ...

Officially, Apollo 17 was the last mission to the Moon. But a retired astronaut claims Apollo 20 was real—and its mission was to salvage a crashed alien spacecraft. What Americans think about the ...