Powerful Lunar Dynamo’s Demise: The End of the Moon’s Magnetic Field
Findings suggest the moon’s magnetic field was produced by the fallout of a crystallizing iron core. A conventional compass would be of little use on…
Findings suggest the moon’s magnetic field was produced by the fallout of a crystallizing iron core. A conventional compass would be of little use on…
New Generations, Equipped with New Technologies, Prepare to Analyze 50-Year-Old Samples in the New Year Fortunately for today’s scientists, Apollo-era leaders had the foresight to…
The Chandrayaan 2 Vikram lander was targeted for a highland smooth plain about 600 kilometers (3,700 miles) from the south pole; unfortunately, the Indian Space…
The International Space Station is a stepping stone for NASA’s Artemis program that will land the first woman and next man on the Moon by…
A new instrument with its eye on the Moon is taking off aboard a high-altitude NASA plane to measure the Moon’s brightness and eventually help…
As we venture forward to the Moon and establish a sustained lunar presence, finding and understanding water on the lunar surface becomes increasingly important. Lunar…
NYU researchers test whether ‘lunar hypothesis’ is founded on superstition or empirical data. Just in time for Halloween, the BetaGov team at NYU’s Marron Institute…
University of Chicago scientists measure rubidium isotopes to create model for moon formation. Most people only ever encounter rubidium as the purple color in fireworks,…
Mars soil simulant comparable to soil on Earth Researchers at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands have produced crops in Mars and Moon soil…
New research sheds light on the ages of ice deposits reported in the area of the Moon’s south pole — information that could help identify…
The discovery of ice deposits in craters scattered across the Moon’s south pole has helped to renew interest in exploring the lunar surface, but no…
The space race between the US and Russia ended half a century ago when US astronauts became the first to walk on the moon. Today…
If our eyes could see high-energy radiation called gamma rays, the Moon would appear brighter than the Sun! That’s how NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope…
The Moon’s south pole region is home to some of the most extreme environments in the solar system: it’s unimaginably cold, massively cratered, and has…
The Sun is why we’re here. It’s also why Martians or Venusians are not. When the Sun was just a baby four billion years ago,…
The Moon is shrinking as its interior cools, getting more than about 150 feet (50 meters) skinnier over the last several hundred million years. Just…
For more than a century, scientists have squabbled over how the Earth’s moon formed. But researchers at Yale and in Japan say they may have…
Little is known about the inner structure of the Moon, but a major step forward was made by a University of Rhode Island scientist who…