How can artificial intelligence (AI) be used to locate lunar pits and skylights, which are surface depressions and openings, ...

The basaltic meteorite is a piece of lunar rock that formed in a lava flow 2.35 billion years ago, long after volcanism on ...

Firefly Aerospace, the Cedar Park-based space and technology company that recently became the first commercial company to ...

Chang'e 6's samples from the lunar far side contain a record of ancient volcanism, magnetism and a mantle depleted in ...

New experiments with Apollo moon dust show micrometeorites - not solar wind - are the main source of the Moon’s thin ...

A new study from the University of Florida analyzing moon rock samples from a Chinese lunar exploration mission is rewriting ...

While our moon is relatively calm, Io is considered to be the most volcanically active world in our solar system. And while Earth, of course, has plenty of active volcanoes of its own, eruptions ...

Jupiter's volcanic moon Io as captured by the Juno spacecraft on Oct. 15, 2023. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Image processing by Ted Stryk On Dec. 27, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft ...

Eventually, the volcanism died out. Without plate tectonics or weather, the only things left to alter the Moon’s cold, dead surface were meteorites.

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 ...