The basaltic meteorite is a piece of lunar rock that formed in a lava flow 2.35 billion years ago, long after volcanism on ...

In the summer of 2024, a robotic mission landed for the first time on the far side of the Moon. The Chinese Chang’e-6 lander planted a flag, dug up more than four pounds of rock and soil, and ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely referred to as a "mini-moon." Turns out the lunar-inspired moniker may have been more accurate than we realized.

Among the many visible effects of the moon's moving away from our planet, research shows that in 200 million years, days will be 25 hours long on Earth, rather than 24.

Deep below the Earth's crust, molten rock rises and falls, driving the movement of tectonic plates on our planet's surface — and for some time, researchers have debated whether the moon also has ...

The moon quickly began to cool. Most of the lunar magma ocean solidified almost right away by geologic standards—about a single millennium. But once about 80% of the magma had solidified, a crust of ...

In particular, the Chandrayaan-3 landing site would probably have been covered by about 1.5-2km of ejected rock from the so-called " South Pole-Aitken" impact basin – a 2,500km diameter ...

The Moon has long been the Earth's close companion, but researchers have struggled to understand exactly when the moon formed, because tiny crystals in the moon rocks brought home by astronauts ...

The visible side of the moon. Gregory H. Revera via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0. On December 16, 2020, the return capsule of the Chinese National Space Administration’s Chang'e 5 moon probe ...