Ancient rocks collected from the far side of the moon are giving scientists a fresh look at the violent history of our solar system. The rare samples suggest that asteroid impacts on the moon happened ...

In the summer of 2024, a robotic mission landed for the first time on the far side of the Moon. The Chinese Chang'e-6 lander planted a flag, dug up more than four pounds of rock and soil, and brought ...

Ancient samples from the moon's far side are helping scientists uncover how asteroid impacts shaped the early solar system.

Samples collected by China’s Chang’e-6 mission from the Moon’s far side have unveiled moon dust containing a rare pre-solar system rock fragment with water. This discovery suggests that asteroids may ...

Berkeley — Using a state-of-the-art computer model of the lunar interior, geophysicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown that a mighty burp early in the moon’s history could ...

Some parts of the moon are more interesting than others, especially when searching for future places for humans to land and work. There are also some parts of the moon about which we know less than ...

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 ...

For decades, scientists have debated whether the early Solar System endured one sudden, catastrophic wave of asteroid strikes ...

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New research from a Western University postdoctoral fellow shows the early lunar crust, which makes up the surface of the moon, was considerably enriched in water more than 4 billion years ago, ...