Apollo 17 mission brought back lunar soil. Astronauts found tiny glass beads called Moon beads. These beads formed 3.3 billion years ago during volcanic eruptions. Molten lava cooled and solidified ...

You might see the Moon as a grey, lifeless orb that orbits our planet each day. However, many researchers believe that the Moon is more alive than we believe. Further, they believe that the Moon's ...

NASA Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan drives a moon buggy at the lunar Taurus-Littrow Valley landing site in 1972. No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads ...

The moon was once a hive of volcanic activity. But while the vents have remained inactive and dormant for tens of millions of years or more, the satellite retains evidence of its once volatile past – ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have discovered a new and renewable source of water on the moon for future explorers in lunar samples from a Chinese mission. Water was embedded in tiny glass ...

Water has been found hidden inside tiny glass beads taken from the surface of the moon by China's Chang'e 5 mission In a paper published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience, scientists describe ...

Shiny glass beads from the Moon are bringing scientists one step closer to understanding how future astronauts might survive the seemingly barren lunar terrain, and how the Solar System evolves today.

Glass beads on the surface of the Moon could provide a readily accessible source of water for future missions, a new study suggests. Scientists have analysed glass beads collected by the Chang'e-5 ...

March 27 (Reuters) - Glass beads spawned in violent impacts from space rocks on the lunar surface have been found to have water trapped inside, offering what scientists describe as a potential ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have ...