The Moon was volcanically active for a long time, but if we look at its mysterious ... making this a very important finding; the lander had previously found evidence of magmatic structures there. The ...

Similar deep-sea volcanoes found on Earth support microbial life that lives inside solid rock without sunlight and oxygen.

Active volcanoes were erupting on the far side of the moon 2.8 billion years ago, the first lunar samples returned from the far side reveal.

The 311-gram space rock was discovered in 2023 and is known as the Northwest Africa 16286 meteorite — and based on the decay ...

Scientists have probed tiny glass beads among NASA's Apollo 17 rock samples and found new information about the moon's ancient volcanoes.

Ancient volcanic heat may have shaped the moon from the inside out, keeping one side thinner, warmer and more geologically active than the other, a new study suggests.

The Voyager 1 spacecraft had flown past this moon of Jupiter, catching the first glimpse of active volcanism on a world other than Earth. Umbrella-shaped outbursts of magmatic matter rocketed into ...

When Apollo astronauts stumbled across shimmering orange beads on the moon, they had no idea they were gazing at ancient relics of violent volcanic activity. These glass spheres, tiny yet ...