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 ...

No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads, smaller than grains of sand, formed ...

The bead, just a fraction of an inch wide, was among the 3.7-pound (1.7-kilogram) cache of rock and soil collected by the Chang'e-5 lander in 2020 from Oceanus Procellarum, or the "Ocean of Storms ...

Trillions of pounds of water may be strewn across the moon, trapped in tiny glass beads that could have formed when asteroids struck the lunar surface, according to a new study.

One bead called CE5#33,036 caught the scientists' attention because it displayed "notable post-diffusion water loss at the very rim, suggesting that CE5 impact glass beads have the capacity of both ...

The oxide glass beads are fortified with nutrients such as phosphorus, calcium, and potassium Adapted from ACS Agricultural Science & Technology, 2025, DOI: 10.1021/acsagscitech.4c00243 View 1 Image ...

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When Apollo astronauts landed on the Moon, preparing to face a lifeless wasteland, they were taken aback to find the surface ...

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.

Bi-Wen Wang, Qian W.L. Zhang and colleagues sorted through more than 3000 tiny glass beads they recovered from a lunar sample collected by Chang’e‑5, examining the bead’s chemical ...

The bead, just a fraction of an inch wide, was among the 3.7-pound (1.7-kilogram) cache of rock and soil collected by the Chang'e-5 lander in 2020 from Oceanus Procellarum, or the "Ocean of Storms ...