moon rocks

Remember those plants grown in soil collected by Apollo astronauts? Bad news -- it sounds like they didn't turn out so great.

Dirt Nasty

Would you eat these weird-looking sprouts?

Bad News! The Plants Grown in Moon Soil Turned Out Wretched

China's space program is finally preparing to loan out its newly-retrieved lunar samples to scientists for their research.

Rockshare Program

Researchers' applications to borrow the precious samples are being reviewed.

China Is Now Letting Scientists Study the Rocks It Took From the Moon Last Year

China's robotic Chang'e-5 space probe successfully gathered up lunar samples and is poised to be the first successful lunar retrieval mission since 1976.

Capture The Flag

Now Chang'e-5 just needs to blast off from the lunar surface and return to Earth.

Chinese Robot Mission Successfully Collects Moon Rocks

Metalysis, a UK-based engineering firm, has signed a contract with the European Space Agency to investigate ways to extract breathable air from Moon dust.