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

According to observations of young ridges see on the far side, Earth's moon is not geologically dead, as previously believed.

The near side of the Moon, which faces the Earth, is thinner, while the mysterious far side is crammed with thick layers of ...

Our nearest neighbor, the moon, is still something of a mystery to us. For decades, scientists have wondered why it appears ...

Scientists may have finally cracked a decades-old mystery about the Moon’s uneven surface. A new analysis of dust collected ...

Potassium is volatile and can easily vapourise under extreme heat. The study suggests that the Moon’s far-side mantle ...

Map of the thickness of the Moon's crust from GRAIL mission gravity data. Mean thickness are estimated to be 34-43 km. Imagine a system of molten silicate material, where low-density minerals float ...

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