Tiny glass beads formed in the fires of explosive volcanic eruptions on the moon, and brought back to Earth by Apollo 17, ...

Liftoff of the Apollo 17 Saturn V Moon Rocket from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 12:33 a.m., December 17, 1972. Apollo 17, the final lunar landing mission ...

No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads, smaller than grains of sand, formed ...

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.

Apollo 11 was Neil Armstrong's famous first step. Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. In all, 20 Apollo flights were planned but Apollo 18, 19 and 20 were canceled. But in 2007 ...

Those were the last words spoken on the moon by astronaut Gene Cernan, during the Apollo 17 mission, on Dec. 14, 1972. No one has set foot on the moon since. As we reach the 50th anniversary of ...

The somberness of the anniversary is offset by the scenes of Artemis I’s recently concluded mission. Apollo 17, left, blasting off from Launchpad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on ...

Marusiak noted that every Apollo mission carried instruments for detecting moonquakes. But the Apollo 17 mission, launched in 1972, was noteworthy because it left behind an array of seismometers ...

The December 1972 issue of Popular Science included a preview of the Apollo 17 mission and a look back at previous Apollo missions. To mark the American return to the moon, we wanted to take a ...

Fifty years ago this week, Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt blasted off to the moon on the final mission of the Apollo moon program, Apollo 17. By all accounts, they did not ...

Lunar dust collected by Apollo 17 astronauts in the 1970s has revealed ... with rocky bodies often colliding in space. During that time more than 4 billion years ago, a Mars-size object crashed ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - During the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 - the last time people walked on the moon - U.S. astronauts Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan collected about 243 pounds (110.4 ...