Marius A is an ~15 km diameter crater (12.58 deg N, 46.05 deg W) located within Mare Insularum. The Featured Image shows basalt layering partially covered by streaks of granular material that slid ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Basalt samples from China's Chang'e-6 mission helped researchers for the first time to precisely measure the age of volcanic ...

Active volcanic activity helped create the moon's surface minerology as recently as 2 billion years ago, leaving an iron-rich and high-calcium surface of basalts geographically younger than the lunar ...

Lunar sample return sample missions with associated water content estimates. Credit: Prof. Hu Sen's group Chinese scientists have discovered that the moon's mantle contains less water on the lunar ...

This sequence of images, taken by the advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft, shows on area on the near side of the Moon, on the edge of the Mare Humorum basin. AMIE ...

Samples from the Moon’s Oceanus Procellarum, an ancient mare basalt whose name translates to “Ocean of Storms,” may be able to calm at least one scientific squall: the source of lunar water. China’s ...

A study of magnesium stable isotopes in lunar rock samples finds that the oldest known samples contain isotope signatures similar to the known bulk magnesium isotope composition of the Inner Solar ...

Humankind has maintained an enduring fascination with the Moon. It was not until Galileo’s time, however, that scientists really began study it. Over the course of nearly five centuries, researchers [ ...