The South Pole-Aitken basin is the moon's oldest and largest visible crater—a massive geological wound 4 billion years old that preserves secrets about the moon's early history, much like a lunar time ...

The ancient magnetic field for the moon has baffled scientists for decades. Lunar probes are now providing fresh evidence.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan drives a moon buggy at the lunar Taurus-Littrow Valley landing site in 1972. No one ...

In a revelation that could rewrite the early history of the Moon, a team of scientists have determined that the Moon is about 40 million years older than previously known by studying ancient crystals ...

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. A few hundred million years after its ...

Crystals formed in the Moon’s cooling magma ocean suggest the Moon is 40 million years older than previously believed. Reading time 2 minutes The Moon’s crater-covered countenance was previously ...