The Moon has long been treated as a geologically dead world, a frozen relic that finished erupting billions of years ago. A wave of new data is now challenging that assumption, pointing instead to a ...

Using the Yutu-2 rover and Lunar Penetrating Radar (LPR), scientists have mapped over 1,000 feet of lunar geology, revealing previously inaccessible layers of volcanic rock, dust, and impact craters.

Matt Siegler, a planetary scientist at SMU, was digging into old data to figure out how hot it is under the moon’s surface when he came upon something surprising: evidence of a massive, ancient ...

As the nearest celestial body to Earth, Moon’s space environment is distinctive to Earth’s mainly because of lack of a significant atmosphere/ionosphere and a global magnetic field. From a global ...