Since the dawn of human curiosity, the Moon has been a constant fixture overhead, quietly pulling at the tides, marking the ...
A half century after NASA's Apollo 17 lunar module lifted off the moon's northeastern near side quadrant, planetary scientists still don't completely understand when or how our moon first formed. They ...
The surprising age of two of the rocks brought back by the Apollo 11 crew from the Sea of Tranquillity, and chemical analyses of the lunar material, seem at the moment to support the theory that the ...
The Moon’s biggest scar does not sit quietly in the background. The South Pole-Aitken basin is a vast impact structure more than 2,000 kilometers wide on the lunar far side. It has long looked ...