The Moon used to have a magnetic field, powered similarly to how the geodynamo powers the magnetism of Earth. Unlike our planet though, the Moon became solid and the magnetic field disappeared. But ...

RECENT reports of volcanic activity on the Moon 1 have ... some with central ‘pimples’, closely resembling lunar craters. In the present work, we have repeated this experiment (Fig.

Basalt samples from China's Chang'e-6 mission helped researchers for the first time to precisely measure the age of volcanic ... found that the Moon’s oldest and deepest crater on its far ...

The Moon is far older than we once believed — but its fiery past has kept its true age hidden. New research reveals that, a ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter discovered a new crater on the moon that's 33 feet in diameter — as wide as a 3-story building is tall. It could be the crash site of Russia's Luna-25 moon ...

The biggest and oldest of these scars is a monster crater, one of the largest, not just on the Moon, but in the entire Solar System. The South Pole-Aitken basin covers nearly a quarter of the Moon ...

Coupled with archival data from the Galileo spacecraft, researchers led by Ryan Park of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory were able to use those two fly-bys to measure the gravitational field of Io, ...

The exercise, known as Joint Extravehicular Activity and Human Surface Mobility Test Team Field ... its craters, faults, and volcanic features, has long been an ideal training ground for lunar ...