A group of Chinese researchers revealed that the volatile loss from the lunar mantle was induced by the giant impact that ...

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 ...

"For the first time, we have physical evidence showing us what was happening in the moon's interior during this critical stage of its evolution, and that's really exciting." When you purchase through ...

Sophisticated analysis of a rock sample taken from the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission revealed new information about the complex cooling and evolutionary history of the Moon. The findings, from ...

SAN ANTONIO — September 18, 2023 —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 ...

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 ...