China's Chang'e 5 mission brought back evidence that the moon had erupting volcanoes just 120 million years ago.

Recent studies suggest that the Moon, now a barren world with a negligible atmosphere, may once have had an atmosphere akin ...

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A 2.35-billion-year-old Moon rock that fell to Earth in Africa is rewriting what we know about lunar volcanism. This rare meteorite, studied by UK scientists and unveiled at a major geochemistry ...

"We suggest that the processes which formed the lunar maria several billion years ago are still present and active today." Ancient volcanic heat may have shaped the moon from the inside out, keeping ...

The moon spent a few million years as a volcanic wasteland, covered with ongoing eruptions that spewed from mountains and even from the ground itself. New research suggests that the moon's orbit could ...

Tiny glass beads brought back by NASA's Apollo 17 astronauts are helping scientists uncover new clues about how the moon erupted billions of years ago. No one expected these glittering bits among the ...

Partly cloudy with a chance of methane? Astronomers with the Space Telescope Science Institute say they have spotted evidence of active weather patterns on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, helping to ...