The U.S.-led Artemis mission that will send humans to the moon for the first time in half a century has adopted a system developed by Japanese researchers to study the lunar surface.

Researchers have uncovered more than a thousand previously unknown tectonic ridges across the Moon’s dark plains, showing the ...

Scientists have mapped thousands of young tectonic ridges across the Moon, showing it is still slowly shrinking. These ridges may mark previously unknown sources of moonquakes.

THE Moon’s “skin” is cracking as Earth’s lunar pal SHRINKS, scientists say. Rather than being a dead rock whizzing around Earth, our neighbouring moon is still active – ...

Once thought dormant, the Moon is now revealed to be a dynamic world. Cooling and contracting, its crust fractures, creating cliffs and generating measurable moonquakes. Recent studies confirm this ...

The find could help keep upcoming lunar exploration missions safe by assessing potential for future moonquakes.

When Apollo 17 astronauts returned from the moon in 1972, they visited NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton to thank staff for their contributions to the mission, saying “we stood on the shoulders ...

The Artemis Moon exploration program seems to have inspired a lot of people and companies that are involved in the space industry to come up with a flood of interesting ideas on how to advance ...

The Moon is slowly shrinking as its interior cools, and that contraction is generating faults and seismic activity in the ...