How the Moon formed may have just fallen back into the ... That's not to say that an impact couldn't have been involved; one model suggests that an impact pulverized the whole kit and kaboodle ...

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

Museum planetary science researcher Prof Sara Russell explains the origins of Earth's closest companion. 'There used to be a number of theories about how the Moon was made and it was one of the aims ...

New findings from China's Chang'e 6 lunar farside samples offer insights into the moon's volcanic past and mantle evolution.

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

Hafnium and lutetium help determine when a crust formed over the moon’s liquid mantle while the radioactive decay of uranium to lead pinpoints when the zircon crystallized. Previous analysis of ...

A major breakthrough in space science has revealed the age of the Moon’s biggest and oldest crater—the South Pole–Aitken (SPA ...

Firefly originally intended to develop a spacecraft based on the design of Israel's Beresheet lander, which was the first ...

New research from scientists with the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and published in the journal Science found that sample analysis backs up an established model of the moon as a global ...