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 ...

Chinese scientists have discovered that the Moon's mantle contains less water on the lunar farside than on the nearside, based on analysis of basalts collected by the Chang'e-6 (CE6) lunar mission.

A new compact X-ray telescope may finally give scientists the first complete map of the Moon’s elemental composition, ...

"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." Over 4.2 billion years ago ...