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 ...

The Apollo 17 astronauts were the last humans to set foot on the moon, and apparently the three crew members saw some very interesting sights during the mission. While scouring the lunar surface for ...

“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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 50 years after the last manned moon mission, the Apollo program is still making groundbreaking discoveries. Lunar rock collected by Apollo 17 is revealing more about the Light Mantle, a ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The moon is our planet’s constant celestial companion, only ...

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