NASA is preparing for the launch of its fifth New Frontiers mission, NF-5, aimed at exploring high-priority scientific ...

A team of geologists at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, the Institute of Space Sciences and the Shandong ...

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

New research from scientists with the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and published in the journal Science found that sample analysis backs up an established model of the moon as a global ...

It noted that knowing the formation time of the 2,500-kilometer-wide SPA basin, which is located on the moon's far side, ...

See what moon phase it is tonight and find out when you can see the rest of the moon phases for 2025. Today, March 21, 2025, the moon is 21 days old and is in the Waning Gibbous phase of its lunar ...

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under ...

Nicole S. Khan is in the Department of Earth Sciences and the Swire Institute of Marine Science, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Read the paper: Global sea-level rise in the early Holocene ...

"Small graben on large thrust faults indicate that tectonic activity on the Moon is ongoing. This is an important clue that other moons and planets could still be geologically active as well," Frueh ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

A major breakthrough in space science has revealed the age of the Moon’s biggest and oldest crater—the South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin. Thanks to China’s Chang’e-6 mission, scientists now believe this ...