A piece of moon rock gifted to Ireland following NASA's historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969 was tragically destroyed in a fire ...

New details about the small pieces of the moon gifted by the United States to Ireland in 1970 have now been unearthed.

Photographs of the first moon landing sites on 'X' bring conspiracy theories to the surface in a series of denial comments ...

Apollo 8 was the first mission where humans orbited the moon and returned home, marking a huge step forward in human and ...

Mankind's first triumphant step off this world. On 20 July 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon. Highlights of our collection of ...

The NASA moon rock the US gifted Ireland from the Apollo 11 mission was burned in a fire, according to Ireland's National ...

The Apollo 11 spacecraft was comprised of two vehicles ... Both helped regulate the command module's temperature on the trip from Earth to the moon and back. When Columbia returned home, the ...

Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the Apollo 11 lunar samples, themselves. The four moon pebbles, which were embedded in a single lucite ball and mounted to a wooden podium together with ...

NASA astronaut Bill Anders took this iconic image of Earth rising over the Moon’s horizon on December 24, 1968.