A small rock found in the deserts of northwest Africa may actually be a fragment from a moon-shaking blast from 3.5 billion ...

For years, a meteorite lay in the deserts of north-west Africa, seemingly no different from countless other rocks scattered ...

The Moon’s biggest scar does not sit quietly in the background. The South Pole-Aitken basin is a vast impact structure more ...

A rare type of meteorite discovered in Mali is revealing a multibillion-year tale of lunar catastrophes. With its unique ...

What types of rocks will Artemis astronauts find at the lunar south pole? This is what a recent study published in Science ...

A lunar meteorite preserves records of three ancient impacts, linking collision histories across Earth, the Moon, and Vesta.

Scientists may have solved the mystery of why the moon shows ancient signs of magnetism although it has no magnetic field today. An impact, such as from a large asteroid, could have generated a cloud ...

UB students huddled in the Hochstetter Hall volcanology lab, passing around a plexiglass disk. Inside was what at first glance appeared to be unremarkable pebbles and dust but was actually some of the ...

The moon may look unchanged from afar, but its surface is constantly reshaped by microscopic impacts and a steady stream of ...

A new study of Apollo lunar rocks suggests that the moon is older than anyone believed. The moon, researchers now say, likely formed about 50 million years after the solar system did, which is much ...