The Apollo astronauts didn't know what they'd find when they explored the surface of the moon, but they certainly didn't ...

The Moon is certainly not a colorful world. Forget the crimson hue of Mars or the blue of Neptune. Our natural satellite is ...

A tiny glass bead retrieved by China's Chang'e-5 lunar mission is offering scientists a glimpse into the moon's hidden depths and providing insight into the violent forces that helped shape the ...

The shape and location of these spherules suggest ... The scientists say the glass beads formed recently or were only recently exposed. The top inch of the lunar regolith gets covered in less ...

Because it is in flight when it melts and then cools again, Miljkovic says, that molten material hardens into a spherical shape, falling back to the ground as glass beads. The researchers analyzed ...

copper and glass beads, by Kapwani Kiwanga. (Valentina Mori) "These little, tiny, miniscule units of glass shaped our modern and postmodern world," said Kiwanga from her studio in Rome before the ...

Typically, glass and ceramics are shaped in a mold or are 3D printed in ... a cross-linked polycaprolactone polymer with tiny beads of silica suspended in it, like raisins in raisin bread.