When Apollo astronauts first set foot on the Moon, they expected to find the typical grey rocks and dust that had long been associated with Earth’s closest neighbor. What they didn’t expect to ...

Tiny, orange glass beads discovered on the moon during the Apollo era may reveal an untold history of lunar volcanism.

Apollo astronauts discovered orange and black glass beads on the Moon's surface, a surprising find among the gray landscapes. The beads, measuring less than a millimeter (0.04 inches), were formed 3.

No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads, smaller than grains of sand, formed when ancient lunar volcanoes spewed molten rock. That rock quickly cooled and ...

Tiny glass beads formed in the fires of explosive volcanic eruptions on the moon, and brought back to Earth by Apollo 17, reveal their secrets.

What they didn't anticipate was discovering something that looked almost magical: tiny, brilliant orange glass beads scattered across the Moon's landscape like microscopic gems.

Multicolored glass beads that China's Chang'e-5 mission collected from the Moon are revealing clues about an ongoing lunar water cycle.

These Glistening Glass Beads on the Moon Likely Came From Ancient Lunar Volcanoes Learn more about these shimmery, orange and black beads on the moon that researchers describe as “tiny, pristine” time ...

The effort gave scientists a most unusual sample: very small beads of orange volcanic glass, formed in a great eruption of fire fountains over 3.5 billion years ago.

The evidence for the recent volcanism came from three tiny glass beads — just three out of 3,000 in Chang'e 5's sample. A team led by Bi-Wen Wang and Qian Zhang of the Institute of Geology and ...

What can glass beads collected from the lunar surface more than 50 years ago teach scientists about the Moon’s volcanic history? This is what a recent study published in Icarus hopes to address as a ...

They also have different colors and could be black, green and orange glass beads,' he told the web media Inverse. Below is an image of the microtectite released by the research team.