Tag: Moon

For anyone who has ever wished there were more hours in the day, geoscientists have some good news: Days on Earth are getting longer. A...

Around four billion years ago, the Moon had a magnetic field that was about as strong as Earth's magnetic field is today. How the...

Huge earthquakes are not significantly influenced by the moon, a new study says. The study, conducted by U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Susan Hough, looked at...

Southwest Research Institute scientists recently modeled the protracted period of bombardment following the Moon's formation, when leftover planetesimals pounded the Earth. Based on these...

The Earth's Moon had a rough start in life. Formed from a chunk of the Earth that was lopped off during a planetary collision,...

While orbiting the Moon in 1971, the crew of Apollo 15 photographed a strange geological feature -- a bumpy, D-shaped depression about two miles...

Mars' mantle may be more complicated than previously thought. In a new study published today in the Nature-affiliated journal Scientific Reports, researchers at LSU...

Earth's mantle -- the layer between the crust and the outer core -- is home to a primordial soup even older than the moon....

The Moon’s Orientale basin is an archetype of “multi-ring” basins found throughout the solar system. New research reveals how those rings were formed. Using data...

A layer of iron and other elements deep underground is the evidence scientists have long been seeking to support the hypothesis that the moon...

Measurements of an element in Earth and Moon rocks have just disproved the leading hypotheses for the origin of the Moon. Tiny differences in the...

In molten sandstone extracted by prospectors a century ago, an international team of scientists has discovered microscopic crystals telling of unimaginable pressures and temperatures...

A new model developed by University of Rochester researchers could offer a new explanation as to how cracks on icy moons, such as Pluto's...

Mountains aren't the first thing that hit you when you look at images of Jupiter's innermost moon, Io. But once you absorb the fact...

The Earth's magnetic field permanently protects us from the charged particles and radiation that originate in the sun. This shield is produced by the...

A new study published today in Nature reports discovery of a rare event -- that Earth's moon slowly moved from its original axis roughly...

The moon was formed by a violent, head-on collision between the early Earth and a "planetary embryo" called Theia approximately 100 million years after...

Scientists have long wondered if water lurks beneath the Moon’s surface. Many thought the scalding impact that formed the Moon long ago would have...

In 2013, Chang'e-3, an unmanned lunar mission, touched down on the northern part of the Imbrium basin, one of the most prominent of the...

Phenomenally durable crystals called zircons are used to date some of the earliest and most dramatic cataclysms of the solar system. One is the...