Apollo 17, the final crewed lunar landing mission, aimed to collect highland samples crucial for completing the understanding of lunar evolution, unlike previous missions focused on lowland maria.

Lunar dust collected by Apollo 17 astronauts in the 1970s has revealed that the moon is 40 million years older than previously believed. After landing on the moon on December 11, 1972, NASA astronauts ...

Now, a research team led by a Brown University professor has done just that. In a study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, researchers report a sulfuric surprise in rock ...

[Apollo 17] THE EARTH ABOVE LM CHALLENGER: last seen by humans from the surface of another world (NASA's own copy, used and annotated, for the preparation of its final Apollo science report), 1972 ...

When astronauts returned from NASA’s final Apollo Moon mission in 1972, some of the samples they collected were sealed and carefully stored away in the hope that future researchers using advanced ...