Researchers have also suggested that an asteroid impact triggered the moon’s lopsidedness. Now, lunar rock and soil samples ...

According to observations of young ridges see on the far side, Earth's moon is not geologically dead, as previously believed.

Our nearest neighbor, the moon, is still something of a mystery to us. For decades, scientists have wondered why it appears ...

Map of the thickness of the Moon's crust from GRAIL mission gravity data. Mean thickness are estimated to be 34-43 km. Imagine a system of molten silicate material, where low-density minerals float ...

Since the Moon's formation, asteroid impacts have been the dominant exogenous geological process, creating craters and basins ...

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Stephen M. Elardo is in the Florida Planets Lab, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA. Read the paper: Ultra-depleted mantle source of basalts from ...