Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A half moon close up on black Well, the verdict is in. The Moon is not made of green cheese after all. A thorough investigation ...

Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt collecting samples on the Moon on 11 December 1972. (NASA) When Apollo 11 touched ...

Stephen M. Elardo is in the Florida Planets Lab, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA. Read the paper: Ultra-depleted mantle source of basalts from ...

China's Chang’e-6 mission has delivered the first-ever samples from the Moon’s far side, shedding light on one of planetary science’s greatest mysteries: why the near and far sides are so different.

Chinese scientists have discovered that the moon's mantle contains less water on the lunar farside than on the nearside, based on analysis of basalts collected by the Chang'e-6 (CE6) lunar mission.

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 ...

A colossal northern asteroid impact billions of years ago likely shaped the Moon’s south polar region and explains its uneven terrain. Researchers found that the South Pole-Aitken Basin formed from a ...

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 ...

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 ...