Scientists discover volcanic glass beads from ancient volcanoes on the Moon, revealing activity 123 million years ago.

Dating of lunar volcanic basalt samples returned to Earth by the Apollo and Luna missions or delivered to Earth as lunar ...

The Moon's surface, although seemingly uniform from a distance, is marked by dark spots that have intrigued scientists and ...

China’s Chang'e-6 mission has achieved a significant milestone in lunar exploration by collecting and analyzing the ...

Whittington says the surface of Earth’s Moon is made up largely of plains known as the lunar “mare” (Latin for “seas”), which is made of basalt. On the far side ... stirred up by the impacts of micro ...

These dark areas formed when massive asteroid or meteorite impacts ... The lava was similar to the basalt that erupts on Earth and, like on Earth, cooled to form a relatively dark-colored rock. We ...

Tim Grove is the R.R. Schrock Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Grove is recognized ...

The beads were not necessarily erupted near where they were found. As well as bringing rocks to the Moon, meteorite impacts scatter debris widely across the lunar surface. Wang et al argued that ...

Black and gray sediment stretches as far as the eye can see. Boulders sit on top of ground devoid of vegetation. Humans ...

The partial lunar eclipse illuminated across the Americas, Europe and Africa from Sept. 17 through Sept. 18 CTK via AP The partial lunar eclipse shone bright across a portion of the planet this week.