Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three tiny glass beads, from a sample of 3,000 taken from the Moon, have revealed evidence of recent volcanic activity. Previous ...
The next U.S. trip to the moon isn't about planting a flag. It's about learning how to live and work there. NASA has just ...
The Moon has long been treated as a geologically dead world, a frozen relic that finished erupting billions of years ago. A wave of new data is now challenging that assumption, pointing instead to a ...
Does our Moon exhibit recent tectonic activity? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the potential for our Moon ...
Signs of volcanic activity on the Moon can be viewed simply by looking up at the night-time sky: The large, dark plains called “maria” are the product of massive outbursts of volcanic material. But ...
Did the Moon’s geological activity stop billions of years ago after it formed, or has it been active since then? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address ...
NASA’s Artemis II astronauts will conduct life-support, radiation and observation tasks during their 10-day lunar orbit, ...
A new paper reveals that ground acceleration from moonquakes, rather than meteor impacts, was responsible for shifting lunar landscapes at the moon's Taurus-Littrow valley, where Apollo 17 astronauts ...
Lionel Wilson has in the past received funding from the Leverhulme Trust for work on lunar volcanism. Volcanoes were erupting on the Moon as recently as 120 million years ago, evidence collected by a ...
This year, the Perseids are expected to peak Tuesday, Aug. 12, and Wednesday, Aug. 13. Unfortunately, the Perseid meteor shower is peaking three days after a full moon that could outshine the fainter ...