It is the test bed for a collaboration between academics, space agencies and mineral exploration companies which aims to ...

No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads, smaller than grains of sand, formed ...

The Moon has long been the Earth's close companion, but researchers have struggled to understand exactly when the moon formed, because tiny crystals in the moon rocks brought home by astronauts ...

Early interactions with the Earth may have heated up the Moon and caused it to remelt, producing new lunar rocks and erasing old craters. You don't look a day over 4.35 billion! Here's the moon's ...

The moon is made mostly of rocks that are rich in iron and magnesium. The moon's face is covered in craters, which were left by various space objects that slammed into the moon over billions of years.

The adjusted timeline from Nimmo’s team may also help explain why minerals on the moon called zircon — which were found in Apollo moon rocks — were estimated to be roughly 4.5 billion years old.

The moon is a Rosetta Stone of the planets. —Robert Jastrow UNCORRUPTED by the swirling gases of an atmosphere, unworn by the erosive pounding of wind and water, the moon has its history written ...

The adjusted timeline from Nimmo’s team may also help explain why minerals on the moon called zircon — which were found in Apollo moon rocks — were estimated to be roughly 4.5 billion years old.

The authors compared the abundance of 70 elements in Moon rocks with their presence in Earth’s mantle and crust. They found a lack of elements that turn more easily to gas than lithium.

In January 2024, Astrobotic's Peregrine lander was launched on a Vulcan rocket for what could have been the first U.S. moon landing in more than half a century. It symbolized years of the hard ...

A startup company wants to establish mining operations on the moon to extract a rare isotope needed for future quantum computers and nuclear fusion reactors.And according to one of its scientific ...

Quick facts about the moon. How far away it is: An average of 238,855 miles (384,400 kilometers) from our planet How big it is: 2,159 miles (3,475 km) across, or about one-fourth our planet's size ...