The Moon has a reputation as a frozen, silent world, but a growing body of evidence suggests it is still shifting and straining deep below the surface. From long scarps that wrinkle the crust to fresh ...

Crystals hidden in Australia’s oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests ...

Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences analyzed lunar soil and rock brought back from the far side by Chang’e-6 and ...

According to observations of young ridges see on the far side, Earth's moon is not geologically dead, as previously believed.

Once moon rocks were returned to Earth in the Apollo missions, however, a problem arose. Their isotopic compositions were found to be nearly identical to those of rocks from Earth's mantle and crust.

For decades, scientists have puzzled over why lunar rocks show signs of strong magnetism when the moon itself has no global magnetic field today. New simulations suggest the answer may lie in a ...

The small chunk of rock could be telling us that many of the moon’s largest impacts happened over 4.25 billion years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

BEIJING: For decades, scientists have puzzled over why the two sides of the moon look so different. The "near side", which ...