New research suggests that volcanoes were still erupting on the moon at the time dinosaurs were alive on Earth. The evidence ...

Shiny glass beads from the Moon are bringing scientists one step closer to understanding how future astronauts might survive the seemingly barren lunar terrain, and how the Solar System evolves today.

Lunar glass tends to be small, measuring less than 1 mm (0.04 inches), but Apollo astronauts did manage to spot some beads as large as these.

Specifically, the impact glass beads scientists extracted from the soils that China's Chang’e 5, or CE5, lunar mission collected. The beads are “the quenched mixture of lunar surface material produced ...

These glass beads, however, contain water that wasn't originally on the moon. Instead, the beads and the water within them were formed as a result of impacts from meteorites at immense speeds.

These glass beads, obtained by Chang’e-5 on the moon, may be no more than tens of micrometers in diameter. Beijing SHRIMP Center, Institute of Geology, CAGS ...

The beads were collected by astronauts on the Apollo mission more than 50 years ago. Yet, it is only now, thanks to modern technology, that researchers have been able to analyze the chemical ...

Glass Beads of Ghana. Where: Newark Museum, 49 Washington St., Newark. When: Through June 15, 2009. Noon to 5 p.m. Wednesdays-Fridays; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and ...

They found that each nutrient released from both sizes of glass particles and diffused into the solutions steadily over 100 hours with minor fluctuations. They then applied a nutrient solution or ...

The glass beads, which were used as jewelry by the locals, show traces of exposure to sacrificial fires. Other objects found there appear to have been positioned deliberately in definite patterns.