Rocks collected from the Moon’s far side suggest the early Solar System endured a long decline in asteroid impacts rather ...

In the summer of 2024, a robotic mission landed for the first time on the far side of the Moon. The Chinese Chang'e-6 lander planted a flag, dug up more than four pounds of rock and soil, and brought ...

Samples collected by China’s Chang’e-6 mission from the Moon’s far side have unveiled moon dust containing a rare pre-solar system rock fragment with water. This discovery suggests that asteroids may ...

New research from a Western University postdoctoral fellow shows the early lunar crust, which makes up the surface of the moon, was considerably enriched in water more than 4 billion years ago, ...

The shape of the Moon might encode subtle clues about its orbit billions of years ago, say planetary scientists in the US. Their work has turned up one possible solution to a lunar mystery first ...

A physicist, a chemist and a mathematician walk into a bar. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but in my case, it was the start of an idea that could reshape how scientists think about the ...

In July 1969, four faculty members traveled from College Park to Kennedy Space Center in Florida to provide last-minute instruction to a noteworthy pupil: an Apollo 11 astronaut about to become one of ...

New research shows the early lunar crust which makes up the surface of the Moon was considerably enriched in water more than 4 billion years ago, counter to previously held understanding. New research ...