Grant Mathews, professor of theoretical astrophysics and cosmology in the University of Notre Dame’s College of Science, believes the event that led...
Earth’s Moon is among the strangest planetary bodies in our Solar System. Its orbit lies unusually far away from our planet, with a surprisingly large...
Measurements of potassium in lunar and terrestrial rocks have disproved the leading hypotheses for the origin of Earth’s sole natural satellite.
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A researcher’s proposal for an ESA mission to return to the Moon could lay the groundwork for a full-surface geological survey from a permanent lunar...
A team of researchers using data from the Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) instrument on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has detected two geologically...
An international team of researchers, led by Dr. Gunther Korschinek from the Technical University of Munich, has detected radioactive iron-60 in samples...
Earth’s moon wandered off its original axis about 3 billion years ago, a new study led by Southern Methodist University planetary researcher Matt Siegler...
Ancient Egyptians wrote Calendars of Lucky and Unlucky Days that assigned astronomically influenced prognoses for each day of the year. The best preserved...
According to a team of scientists led by Dr Zongcheng Ling of Shandong University in Weihai, the Chinese lunar rover Yutu has found basalts unlike those...
Mafic Mound, a distinctive and enigmatic feature near the Moon’s south pole, is a volcanic structure unlike any other found on the surface of the Earth’s...
NASA’s SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) spacecraft captured this image of Earth and the Moon transiting the Sun together on September 13, 2015.
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Very small pieces of volcanic glass found on the surface of Moon by Apollo 15 and 17 astronauts are the products of volatile-rich, fire-fountain eruptions....
While planetary researchers have speculated on the presence of the noble gas neon in the Moon’s atmosphere (called a surface boundary exosphere) for...
According to a team of scientists led by Prof Mihaly Horanyi of the University of Colorado Boulder, the Moon is engulfed in a permanent but asymmetric...
Scientists at the University of Maryland believe an Earth-Theia collision far more violent than previously thought could explain how the Earth’s Moon...
Planetary scientists using data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission have discovered a 124-mile-wide crater on the nearside...
Using data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA scientists have created a detailed visual simulation of the dark side of the Moon, the side that...
