An extreme heating event may have interfered with scientists' attempts to figure out the Moon's age by dating lunar rock samples.
A new research suggests that the South Pole-Aitken basin may not have formed the way we thought, and may be much bigger than previous studies suggest – a discovery that has exciting implications for future lunar missions to the basin.
Researchers analyzed new data describing the Moon's rigidity under the gravitational influence of Earth and the Sun, finding its mass is unlikely to be solid all the way through.
This means that astronauts may not be tied to visiting the lunar south pole on future missions to acquire water. Instead, they may be able to find water everywhere on the Moon.
Volcanoes were erupting on the Moon as recently as 120 million years ago, evidence collected by a Chinese spacecraft suggests.
The new study seems to confirm that molten magma covered the Moon's surface shortly after its formation.
A thorough investigation published in May 2023 found that the inner core of the Moon is, in fact, a solid ball with a density similar to that of iron.
Chinese researchers have recently discovered a naturally occurring few-layer graphene for the first time in the lunar samples brought back by Chang’e-5 probe, which provides new insights into the Moon’s geology.
The origins of the Moon have been the cause of many a scientific debate over the years but more recently we seem to have settled on a consensus.
A team of Italian researchers say they have discovered evidence of a lunar cave and suspect that there could be hundreds more.
China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe returned to Earth on Tuesday, bringing back the first-ever samples from the unexplored far side of the moon.
Motorcyclists have long ridden on an apparatus called the “wall of death,” which involves driving in circles parallel to the ground. Scientists are theorizing that something similar could be used for astronauts to exercise on the Moon.
469219 Kamo’oalewa as a near-Earth asteroid and a quasi-satellite to Earth. However, in 2021, astronomers using spectroscopy revealed that Kamo’oalewa might in fact be a piece of the moon.
Scientists seem to have figured out why the Moon is made up of such weird and heavy rocks - way back in the day, it turned itself inside out.
The White House in U.S. has recently directed NASA to establish a unified standard of time for the moon and other celestial bodies.
