Data from India's recent Chandrayaan-3 mission supports the idea that an ocean of molten rock once covered the moon. Scientists from the mission have published their new findings in the journal Nature ...

For centuries, scientists have wondered about the true structure of the Moon’s interior. Now, after years of research, a groundbreaking study has provided clarity. Published in Nature, this study ...

The giant impact theory or hypothesis claims that the Moon was formed from debris left from collision between a proto-planetary Earth and a Mars-sized proto-planet called Theia. The debris left from ...

Volcanic rock samples collected during NASA’s Apollo missions bear the isotopic signature of key events in the early evolution of the Moon, a new analysis found. Those events include the formation of ...

New lunar samples from the far side reveal it formed from cooler magma than the near side, confirming the Moon’s interior is not uniform. Researchers suggest fewer heat-producing elements on the far ...

New research on the rocks collected by China's Chang'e 5 mission is rewriting our understanding of how the moon cooled. Stephen Elardo, Ph.D., an assistant professor of Geological Sciences with the ...

When astronauts land near the moon's south pole as part of NASA's Artemis program in a few years, they likely will find themselves in an unexpected treasure trove of clues that could help scientists ...

The South Pole-Aitken impact basin on the far side of the Moon formed in a southward impact (toward the bottom in the image). The basin has a radioactive “KREEP-rich” ejecta blanket on one side of the ...

The water distribution inside the Moon appears to be somewhat lopsided. According to an analysis of lunar materials collected from the far side of the Moon and delivered into the waiting hands of ...