A team recently calculated that most of the Moon's permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) are at most around 3.4 billion years old and can contain relatively young deposits of water ice. Water resources ...

A team including Southwest Research Institute’s Dr. Raluca Rufu recently calculated that most of the Moon’s permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) are at most around 3.4 billion years old and can contain ...

If Earth retained water after its fiery birth, could the moon have done so, too? Evidence suggests water may exist below the moon's surface. And to figure out if current ideas about the lunar ...

At the Moon’s poles and with the Sun at such a low angle, sunlight never reaches the floors of some deep craters. These PSRs are some of the coldest spots in the solar system, trapping volatile ...

SAN ANTONIO — September 18, 2023 —A team including Southwest Research Institute’s Dr. Raluca Rufu recently calculated that most of the Moon’s permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) are at most around 3.4 ...

The discovery of widespread but small amounts water on the surface of the moon, announced Wednesday, stands as one of the most surprising findings in planetary science. Three spacecraft picked up the ...

China’s Chang’e-6 lunar mission has yielded groundbreaking findings about the moon’s hidden history, revealing evidence that a colossal asteroid strike more than 4 billion years ago could have ...

Recent data from ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 mission suggests that the moon may be more habitable to humans than previously believed. According to Firstpost, the data collected by Vikram Lander and Pragyan ...

Humans have been to the Moon – but there’s still a lot we don’t know about it. Scientists studying data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have released two papers in the journal “Science” that ...

A new analysis of lunar rocks now supports the idea that the moon was born in a gigantic collision between the nascent Earth and a mysterious planet-size rock, scientists say. Earth formed about 4.5 ...