The Moon has long been treated as a geologically dead world, a frozen relic that finished erupting billions of years ago. A wave of new data is now challenging that assumption, pointing instead to a ...

Signs of volcanic activity on the Moon can be viewed simply by looking up at the night-time sky: The large, dark plains called “maria” are the product of massive outbursts of volcanic material. But ...

Did the Moon’s geological activity stop billions of years ago after it formed, or has it been active since then? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address ...

The Moon, long treated as a geologically inert relic, is still contracting and cracking. A growing body of peer-reviewed research now confirms that tectonic faulting on the lunar surface has occurred ...

Volcanoes were erupting on the Moon as recently as 120 million years ago, evidence collected by a Chinese spacecraft suggests. Until the last few years, scientists had thought volcanic activity ended ...

How geologically active was the Moon when it first formed and shortly after? This is what a recent study presented at the Goldschmidt 2025 conference hopes to address as a team of researchers ...

A new paper reveals that ground acceleration from moonquakes, rather than meteor impacts, was responsible for shifting lunar landscapes at the moon's Taurus-Littrow valley, where Apollo 17 astronauts ...

A small mare ridge in Northeast Mare Imbrium taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a ...

Returning to the Moon is not just about exploration. It is about extending space operations beyond Earth orbit, developing ...