the lunar surface was frequently struck by massive meteorites. As time progressed, collisions between solar system bodies ground many larger space rocks down. This meant that as the moon aged ...

Read more about the Winchcombe meteorite - the fireball that blazed across the UK. A close-up of the Apollo 16 Moon rock sample on display in Earth Hall In a porthole to your right as you enter Earth ...

The project was based on the then-popular belief that tektites (a form of natural glass) and other Earth stones might actually be moon rocks, blasted into space by meteor strikes and sent plunging ...

scientists can use modern rocks, moon samples, and meteorites to figure out when and how the Earth and moon formed, and what they might once have looked like. The Earth, like all the other planets in ...

to examine moon rocks on loan from the 2020 Chinese Chang'e-5 lunar mission. Meteors and other rocks on display at Deep Impact: Martian, Lunar and Other Rare Meteorites at Christie's on Thursday ...

an American scientist involved in landing site selection and data analyses of the Apollo space missions that brought to Earth the first rock samples from the Moon. Part of the meteorite Oued ...