Researchers have uncovered more than a thousand previously unknown tectonic ridges across the Moon’s dark plains, showing the ...
The Apollo missions changed how scientists understand the moon. Returning with Artemis could help solve some of the biggest lunar mysteries.
A massive upheaval in the Saturnian system could have also led to the moon Hyperion.
A new study hints that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, was created around 400 million years ago, when two massive moons smashed ...
THE Moon’s “skin” is cracking as Earth’s lunar pal SHRINKS, scientists say. Rather than being a dead rock whizzing around Earth, our neighbouring moon is still active – ...
Under this new model, Titan itself is the result of a collision between two earlier moons: a large body called “Proto-Titan,” nearly as massive as modern Titan, and a smaller companion dubbed ...
Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a characteristic geological feature of tectonic activity. Published in The Planetary Science Journal ...
"Our results represent the most globally complete understanding of recent lunar tectonism to date," Nypaver said. "The presence of these additional tectonic features in the lunar maria suggests that ...
Scientists studying Earth’s only natural satellite have discovered compelling evidence that the Moon is not a static world ...
Smithsonian scientists have mapped thousands of young ridges across the lunar maria, which are large, basaltic plains on the ...