Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

Based on research on lunar samples retrieved by the Chang'e-6 mission, a team of Chinese scientists confirmed that the oldest ...

The resulting interpretation of the moon's surface is supported by the Ranger pictures With the technique of stratigraphy the geologist can ascertain the relative age of lunar features.

It noted that knowing the formation time of the 2,500-kilometer-wide SPA basin, which is located on the moon's far side, ...

In the summer of 2024, a robotic mission landed for the first time on the far side of the Moon. The Chinese Chang’e-6 lander planted a flag, dug up more than four pounds of rock and soil, and ...

A team of geologists at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, the Institute of Space Sciences and the Shandong ...

It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing planets, including one last giant impact that threw enough rock, gas, and dust into space to form the ...

Mars is the Red Planet, but turns out the moon has the makings of a reddish cast, too. Yes, scientists have found rust on the moon. The question is: why?

Skywatchers snapped photos of the "blood moon" hovering above North and South America last night. Here's a gallery of images ...

The last time NASA collected data on the heat emerging from the moon's interior was when the space agency still sent ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses.