Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt collecting samples on the Moon on 11 December 1972. (NASA) When Apollo 11 touched ...

On July 20, 1969—now celebrated as Moon Day—humans opened a new chapter in space exploration.

A physicist, a chemist and a mathematician walk into a bar. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but in my case, it was the start of an idea that could reshape how scientists think about the ...

Volcanic rock samples collected during NASA’s Apollo missions bear the isotopic signature of key events in the early evolution of the Moon, a new analysis found. Those events include the formation of ...

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The study of our Moon has experienced a renaissance in recent years, particularly through ongoing and planned sample return missions, which allow us to study lunar rock samples at unprecedented detail ...

A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical signature, found in Africa in 2023, plugs a major gap in our understanding of the moon's volcanic history. Presented at the Goldschmidt ...

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Even though humans have pondered the moon since the first of us looked skyward, there is still much we still don’t know about it. One of these unsolved questions is its origin story. We think the moon ...