A mysterious lunar landslide might have been caused by debris from a faraway crater-forming impact, new analyses of Apollo 17 ...

The samples were sealed until technology improved enough to study them. Now, they may have helped solve a lunar mystery.

In 1972, Apollo 17, the final Apollo mission, set several records and notably brought the first scientist, geologist Harrison Schmitt, to the Moon. One of the mission’s primary objectives was to ...

More than 50 years after the last manned moon mission, the Apollo program is still making groundbreaking discoveries.

A tube sample, collected during the 1972 Apollo 17 mission, has finally been opened. The lunar core sample, dubbed 73001, was opened at the Johnson Space Center.

These core plugs are then dried and measured. In order to complete a core sample, drilling must be halted at the top of the subsurface of the reservoir.

Researchers have developed a new laser-based sampling system for studying the composition of ice cores taken from glaciers. The new system has a 3-mm depth-resolution and is expected to help ...

They also took 30 core samples from each site, down to depths ranging from 10 cm (3.9 in) to 3 meters (9.8 ft).

The goal of the 2025 core sampling program has been to evaluate whether high grade, massive sulphide veins are associated with a larger interval of lower grade, but still economic, copper and ...

ARUN: We're designing a tool to collect a core sample by driving a straw into a potato slice. We've got straws, elastics, clips, popsicle sticks, and skewers. And cups.