Scientists found unusual sulfur in moon samples from Apollo 17. The discovery reveals new clues about the Moon’s ancient ...

The sample on which they conducted their investigation came to Earth in 1972. They were shocked to find the ratio of sulfur ...

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LIBERTY — The historic late 1972 launch of the Apollo 17 mission to the moon represented more than a space expedition to merely collect rock samples from the lunar landscape while making history: It ...

The isotopic ratio of sulfur-33 on the moon differs from that of Earth. Did the moon's sulfur instead come from the impactor ...

More than 50 years after the Apollo 17 Moon rocks returned to Earth, researchers are still uncovered surprising new details ...

"There are no small people in this program, there are no small people on Apollo 17. It made any difference whether you swept out the white room or whether you passed coffee at MCC or whether you kept ...

The small chunk of rock could be telling us that many of the moon’s largest impacts happened over 4.25 billion years ago.

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Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 17 mission — the last one that put humans on the moon. NPR takes a look at the mission and what it means for future travel to our lunar companion.

Despite insurmountable evidence to the contrary, conspiracy theorists have claimed for years that man did not walk on the moon, that the landings were fake. That theory has surfaced again, thanks to a ...

"We leave as we came... with peace and hope for all mankind," Apollo 17 commander Gene Cernan said as he took man's last steps on the moon. It's been 45 years since the launch of Apollo 17, the last ...