The origin of the Moon has fascinated scientists for decades. The most widely accepted theory suggests that the Moon formed ...
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The moon may still be geologically active, judging from the way the lunar far side is wrinkling as the moon contracts. At ...
Scientists proposed an explanation for the formation of Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck near the lunar south pole, which ...
As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...
Roughly 4.6 billion years ago, the Sun was born from the gas and dust of a nebula that underwent gravitational collapse. The ...
Two gargantuan canyons on the moon were carved by a hailstorm of rocks — and that’s good news for future lunar astronauts.
A vast impact crater near the moon’s south pole was formed by an asteroid moving at more than a kilometre a second, releasing energy when it struck equivalent to 130 times that of all the ...
About 3.8 billion years ago, two massive canyons likely formed on the moon in a span of less than 10 minutes, according to new research. The extraordinary formations, each comparable in size to ...