To lay the foundations for a lunar navigation system, NASA's Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) has successfully received global positioning system (GPS) signals beamed from Earth's orbit.
Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander softly touched down in Mare Crisium carrying 10 NASA instruments.
New measurements of rocks gathered during the Apollo missions now show it solidified some 4.43 billion years ago. It turns out that's about the time Earth became a habitable world.
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the lunar far side.
Recently scientists found 266 lunar ridges on the far side: evidence the Moon has been active within the past 200 million years and might still be active today.
An extreme heating event may have interfered with scientists' attempts to figure out the Moon's age by dating lunar rock samples.
A new research suggests that the South Pole-Aitken basin may not have formed the way we thought, and may be much bigger than previous studies suggest – a discovery that has exciting implications for future lunar missions to the basin.
Researchers analyzed new data describing the Moon's rigidity under the gravitational influence of Earth and the Sun, finding its mass is unlikely to be solid all the way through.
This means that astronauts may not be tied to visiting the lunar south pole on future missions to acquire water. Instead, they may be able to find water everywhere on the Moon.
Volcanoes were erupting on the Moon as recently as 120 million years ago, evidence collected by a Chinese spacecraft suggests.
The new study seems to confirm that molten magma covered the Moon's surface shortly after its formation.
A thorough investigation published in May 2023 found that the inner core of the Moon is, in fact, a solid ball with a density similar to that of iron.
Chinese researchers have recently discovered a naturally occurring few-layer graphene for the first time in the lunar samples brought back by Chang’e-5 probe, which provides new insights into the Moon’s geology.
The origins of the Moon have been the cause of many a scientific debate over the years but more recently we seem to have settled on a consensus.
A team of Italian researchers say they have discovered evidence of a lunar cave and suspect that there could be hundreds more.
