Back in 2002, interns Thad Roberts and Tiffany Fowler worked in the building where NASA stores most of the moon rocks it has. They took a 600-pound safe containing about 100 grams of moon samples ...

A piece of moon rock gifted to Ireland following NASA's historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969 was tragically destroyed in a fire, newly uncovered documents from Ireland's National Archives reveal.

Nasa is paying a Colorado-based company $1 (£0.74) to collect a small sample of rocks from the moon. Lunar Outpost is among four firms awarded contracts to retrieve lunar regolith, or moon soil ...

The probe is named after the moon goddess Chang'e in Chinese mythology. The probe used a drill and a robotic arm to scoop up soil and rocks, took some photos of the surface and planted a Chinese flag.