(AP) -- The mystery of Alaska's missing moon rocks has been solved. Getting them back to a state museum likely will depend on a judge. Alaska officials are contesting a lawsuit filed by a former ...

Alaska's long-missing moon rocks returned to the state shortly after midnight on Thursday. The rocks, part of 48.5 pounds of material collected by Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin ...

Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong drop rocks back from the moon in 1969. President Richard Nixon presented one moon rock to each of the 50 U.S. states. But many of those rocks have gone missing. Some ...

One Minnesota museum is the caretaker of out-of-this-world artifacts. Tom Braun, Senior Objects Conservator at the Minnesota Historical Society, gets to hold artifacts from outer space. “Doing what I ...

For decades, a debate has raged about whether the moon ever had a strong magnetic field, or if it was always weak. Now, a new analysis of Apollo-era moon rocks suggests the moon's magnetic field might ...