NASA has just revealed enormous cracks, or grabens, on the Moon that show how the Mare Humorum fractured billions of years ...

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China’s Chang’e-4 mission rover has helped scientists visualise “hidden” structures deep below the surface of the moon’s far side – an advance that reveals billions of years of lunar history. The Yutu ...

Engineers need good data to build lasting things. Even the designers of the Great Pyramids knew the limestone they used to ...

Fig. 3. Lunar volcanic landforms. (A) Floor-fractured crater (44.3°E, 46.5°N), LRO WAC mosaic. (B) Lava flows in the southwestern Imbrium (330.4°E, 25.5°N), Apollo photograph AS15-M-1701. (C) Sinuous ...

The Moon has always held a certain mystery, especially its far side, hidden from Earth’s view. While telescopes and astronauts have revealed much about its surface, recent research has uncovered ...

UArizona aerospace engineering students, from left: Min Seok Kang, Athip Thirupathi Raj, Chad Jordan Cantin, Sivaperuman Muniyasamy and Korbin Aydin Hansen display a smart sandbag structure. Cantin ...

After the U.S. Project Apollo, many countries have been continuously augmenting the exploration of the lunar surface and structure, such as the U.S. Clementine probe, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO ...

Made from faux Martian and lunar soil, a new sulfur-based compound could also lead to faster construction on Earth. If NASA establishes a permanent presence on the moon, its astronauts’ homes could be ...

While the moon is a dead rock floating in space, there is much more that's interesting, at least to researchers, than meets the eye. At first glance, the Earth's closest neighbor may seem boring, but ...

South Korean engineers are stress testing a new kind of lunar robot that is designed to survive the Moon’s most hostile ...