A geologist and an architect standing in a lab may sound like the start to a very nerdy joke, but a pair of these professionals have joined together to revolutionize the way scientists study ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Inside a locked vault at Johnson Space Center is treasure few have seen and fewer have touched. The restricted lab is home to hundreds of pounds of moon rocks collected by Apollo ...

Could the days of lengthy physical lab tests of reservoir rock core samples be numbered? Massachusetts-based Exa Corp. recently unveiled new cloud-based reservoir rock permeability software that it ...

China is mulling plans for a facility to handle returning moon rock samples as part of a step-by-step plan to explore the lunar surface with robotic probes. China's multi-step program calls for lunar ...