Scientists may finally understand how a unique rock type was created on the moon and came to be distributed across the lunar surface. The revelation could solve a puzzle that has long confused ...

The moon may still be geologically active, judging from the way the lunar far side is wrinkling as the moon contracts. At least, that's what planetary scientists who have discovered 266 lunar "wrinkle ...

Humanity’s influence on the moon is so great that we should define a new geological epoch, just as we are doing on Earth with the creation of the Anthropocene, researchers argue. We should also create ...

It's been 50 years since humanity last visited the Moon, and we're planning on returning to our celestial friend in the sky pretty soon. And this time, we'll have a better understanding of what makes ...

The Moon has long been treated as a geologically dead world, a frozen relic that finished erupting billions of years ago. A wave of new data is now challenging that assumption, pointing instead to a ...

Sometimes I look at the Moon and realize how little I actually know about it—what it's made of and how it formed. In this ...

The lunar surface might not look like much at first glance, but new research published just this week in the journal Nature Geoscience suggests that the Moon is probably a lot more geologically active ...

Scientists have studied the moon’s surface for decades to help piece together its complex geological and evolutionary history. Evidence from the lunar maria (dark, flat areas on the moon filled with ...

One of the oldest unsolved riddles in planetary science concerns the origin of the moon. Over a century ago, George Darwin ...

What is our Moon really made of? The first map showing what kinds of rocks make-up the lunar surface was published this week—and it’s going straight into the hands of the first astronauts to visit the ...