NASA’s SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) spacecraft captured this image of Earth and the Moon transiting the Sun together on September 13, 2015.
This...
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...
An international group of planetary scientists has produced the first global geologic and tectonic map of Vesta, and constructed the geologic time scale...
A new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has identified 70 volcanic features scattered across the lunar surface, all younger than 100 million...
A study published in the journal Science provides new evidence that the Moon formed from the catastrophic collision of the proto-Earth with a hypothetical...
Planetary researchers headed by Dr Seth Jacobson from the Observatory de la Cote d’Azur in Nice, France, say they have determined that the Moon formed...
On September 11, 2013, an object with the mass of a small car hit the lunar surface in Mare Nubium, an ancient lava-filled basin with a darker appearance...
A new study published in the journal Current Biology provides the first scientific evidence that the lunar cycle can influence human sleep.
New study shows...
A team of researchers at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Australia, has discovered 280 new craters on the Moon.
Spatial distribution of the 66...
A study of Grey reef sharks (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) published in the journal PLoS ONE has revealed that the Moon, water temperature and even time...
A team of researchers from three U.S. universities has suggested that the most likely source of the water locked inside lunar soils is the constant stream...
