The study underscores the importance of drilling on the Moon to extract or study this ice for future missions and potential ...
After centuries of debate, scientists say they have finally proven Earth’s Moon is in fact not made of cheese (Editor's note: Aw, nuts!). A group of scientists recently published a research ...
The moon turned itself inside out to to form the cratered surface we see today, according to scientists. Researchers combined computer simulations and data to show how oceans of magma sank and ...
Linking analyses of the moon's gravity field with models of its earliest evolution, scientists tell a story of the moon turning itself inside out after it solidified from a primordial magma ocean.
About 4.5 billion years ago, a small planet smashed into the young Earth, flinging molten rock into space. Slowly, the debris coalesced, cooled and solidified, forming our moon. This scenario of ...
From Greenwich Mean to Eastern Standard, there's more than 30 timezones in use today. But one more may soon be added – and it would be literally out of this world. The US government has ...
A team of astronomers believes the near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, a space rock between 130 and 328 feet in diameter, was once part of the Moon. More specifically, a research team led by Tsinghua ...
Andrea Mosie greeted me at the doorway to the moon with a wink. “Are you ready?” she asked. I had been warned about the technical procedures that would precede my visit, but I was not prepared for ...
Stonehenge is famous for its alignment with the sun, which is why visitors flock to the ancient site at the start of summer. But 5,000 years ago, the ancient Wiltshire monument may also have ...
So far, the moon has been explored in-situ by four-wheeled rovers, starting with Russia's Lunokhod 1 that arrived on the lunar surface in 1969 and traversed about 6 miles (10 kilometers) in 10 months.
When it came to finding shelter, our early ancestors simply had to make do. Case in point? In the deserts of Saudi Arabia, some of them apparently sought refuge from the oppressive heat by living in ...
When it came to finding shelter, our early ancestors simply had to make do. Case in point? In the deserts of Saudi Arabia, some of them apparently sought refuge from the oppressive heat by living ...