Humans have been to the Moon – but there’s still a lot we don’t know about it. Scientists studying data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have released two papers in the journal “Science” that ...

A team including Southwest Research Institute’s Dr. Raluca Rufu recently calculated that most of the Moon’s permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) are at most around 3.4 billion years old and can contain ...

Recent data from ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 mission suggests that the moon may be more habitable to humans than previously believed. According to Firstpost, the data collected by Vikram Lander and Pragyan ...

Planetary scientists like me have known that sulfur exists in lunar rocks and soils, but only at a very low concentration. These new measurements imply there may be a higher sulfur concentration than ...

DURHAM, N.H. — Space scientists from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) report that data gathered by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) show ...

Chinese scientists working with just five grams of lunar soil from the moon’s far side have produced a cascade of findings ...

Between 1.0 and 3.6 billion years ago, many studies suggest the Moon either had a very weak magnetic field or none at all.

NASA’s latest observations using the James Webb Space Telescope confirm asteroid 2024 YR4 will miss the Moon in 2032, eliminating previous lunar impact concerns.

A team recently calculated that most of the Moon's permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) are at most around 3.4 billion years old and can contain relatively young deposits of water ice. Water resources ...

(Nanowerk News) A team including Southwest Research Institute’s Dr. Raluca Rufu recently calculated that most of the Moon’s permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) are at most around 3.4 billion years old ...

At the Moon’s poles and with the Sun at such a low angle, sunlight never reaches the floors of some deep craters. These PSRs are some of the coldest spots in the solar system, trapping volatile ...