A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical signature, found in Africa in 2023, plugs a major gap in our understanding of the moon's volcanic history. Presented at the Goldschmidt ...

Data from India's recent Chandrayaan-3 mission supports the idea that an ocean of molten rock once covered the moon. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

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. The ...

China's robotic spacecraft has brought back rocks and dust from the lunar far side that may solve enduring mysteries about the interior composition of the moon. The uncrewed Chang'e-6 mission capsule ...

We often think of the moon as a lonely, dead rock in the sky. In reality, it is the silent conductor of Earth’s biological ...