For decades, scientists have debated whether the early Solar System endured one sudden, catastrophic wave of asteroid strikes ...

Rocks from the Moon’s far side suggest asteroid impacts slowly decreased instead of peaking in one brief catastrophe. ・The ...

Ancient rocks collected from the far side of the moon are giving scientists a fresh look at the violent history of our solar ...

A half century after NASA's Apollo 17 lunar module lifted off the moon's northeastern near side quadrant, planetary scientists still don't completely understand when or how our moon first formed. They ...

Late Heavy Bombardment, the 52-year-old theory of a 3.9-billion-year asteroid spike, faces its strongest challenge yet. Chang ...

In the summer of 2024, a robotic mission landed for the first time on the far side of the Moon. The Chinese Chang'e-6 lander planted a flag, dug up more than four pounds of rock and soil, and brought ...

Ancient samples from the moon's far side are helping scientists uncover how asteroid impacts shaped the early solar system.

Billions of years ago, so the theory goes, something around the size of Mars smacked into Earth, spewing a whole bunch of dirt into space that eventually coalesced to form the Moon. This is called the ...

What can rocks from the far side of the Moon teach scientists about ancient asteroid impacts? This is what a recent study ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (Reuters) - The moon is sometimes called "two-faced" because the surface of its side perpetually facing away from Earth looks so different than its side always facing our planet.

The Moon has long been the Earth's close companion, but researchers have struggled to understand exactly when the moon formed, because tiny crystals in the moon rocks brought home by astronauts ...

A physicist, a chemist and a mathematician walk into a bar. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but in my case, it was the start of an idea that could reshape how scientists think about the ...