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

The moon’s soil is filled with small spheres of glass. These pieces of glass, often called beads, formed millions of years ago when asteroids slammed into the lunar surface, according to a new ...

About 3.8 pounds (1.7 kg) of soil were collected in the Chang'e-5 mission, with 32 glass beads - tens to hundreds of micrometers wide - examined in the study from the small amount of soil made ...

A discovery of lunar glass beads continues to captivate scientists, shedding new light on the Moon’s volcanic history. These tiny specks, no larger than a millimeter, were formed during volcanic ...

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.

Many believe that the Moon’s secret history is tied to that volcanic activity and that these beads, which the Apollo astronauts brought back when they returned home, formed between 3.3 and 3.6 ...

The moon’s shiny glass beads, less than 1 mm across, formed 3.3–3.6 billion years ago during explosive volcanic eruptions.

Water has been found hidden inside tiny glass beads taken from the surface of the moon by China's Chang'e 5 mission. In a paper published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience, scientists ...

Tiny glass Moon beads could be hiding a reservoir of water that astronauts can tap into when we send them back to the Moon. According to a new paper published in Nature Geoscience, tiny silicate ...

"The tiny glass beads offer us a glimpse of the moon's hidden interior." China recently opened access to its Chang'e-5 lunar samples, which are the first to be brought to Earth since the Soviet ...