How geologically active was the Moon when it first formed and shortly after? This is what a recent study presented at the Goldschmidt 2025 conference hopes to address as a team of researchers ...

The Moon has a reputation as a frozen, silent world, but a growing body of evidence suggests it is still shifting and ...

Researchers have also suggested that an asteroid impact triggered the moon’s lopsidedness. Now, lunar rock and soil samples ...

Jupiter’s volcanic moon, Io, is exhibiting geothermal activity far beyond what scientists had anticipated, with heat levels that defy previous models. This extreme thermal activity is driven by the ...

Since the Moon's formation, asteroid impacts have been the dominant exogenous geological process, creating craters and basins ...

A group of Chinese researchers revealed that the volatile loss from the lunar mantle was induced by the giant impact that ...

Image of the Northest Africa 16286 sample obtained using a scanning electron microscope. These are what’s referred to as “backscattered electron images”, and the different shades of grey highlight ...

BEIJING: For decades, scientists have puzzled over why the two sides of the moon look so different. The "near side", which ...