All of the samples from the moon that researchers worldwide study today were gathered during the Apollo era. The lunar samples seen in the image below were gathered by Apollo 16 in 1972. The samples ...

Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences Alberto Saal and his colleague, late Carnegie scientist Erik Hauri analyzed sulfur isotopes in samples of volcanic glass collected during ...

An experiment originally designed to fly on the international space station led a team of researchers to develop a completely new type of glass, a material formed while floating in midair in a NASA ...

Billions of years ago, a cosmic cataclysm formed the Moon. But some of the details on what, exactly, happened in those historic moments remain fuzzy. The findings may reveal the answer to a ...

A comet detonating in mid-air over the Atacama Desert 12,000 years ago best explains the frothy glasses found near the town of Pica today. This piece of Pica glass weighs about 1.8 ounces (50 grams) ...