Apollo astronauts discovered orange and black glass beads on the Moon's surface, a surprising find among the gray landscapes.

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

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

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 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 ...

‘A potential mantle origin for precursor rocks of high-Mg impact glass beads in Chang’e-5 soil’ was published Read 1219 times Please join our community here and become a VIP.

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 ...

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 ...