Linking analyses of the moon's gravity field with models of its earliest evolution, scientists tell a story of the moon turning itself inside out after it solidified from a primordial magma ocean.
Scientists have finally discovered the sequence of events that likely led to the Earth’s moon turning itself inside out billions of years ago. Most of what researchers know about the moon’s ...
Scientists have made an incredible discovery: they found a ginormous amount of water in a black hole 12 billion light-years away. An ocean in the heart of a black hole! How much water are we ...
"For the first time, we have physical evidence showing us what was happening in the moon's interior during this critical stage of its evolution, and that's really exciting." Over 4.2 billion years ...
About 4.5 billion years ago, a small planet smashed into the young Earth, flinging molten rock into space. Slowly, the debris coalesced, cooled and solidified, forming our moon. This scenario of ...
From Greenwich Mean to Eastern Standard, there's more than 30 timezones in use today. But one more may soon be added – and it would be literally out of this world. The US government has ...
It turns out the simple question has a complicated answer. So far, lunar missions functioned on the time of their respective home countries. However, early last year the European Space Agency (ESA ...
Only a few lunar sites are ideal for certain cutting-edge research—and they’re under threat from mining, satellites and bases, scientists argue Christian Thorsberg Daily Correspondent Over the ...
When it came to finding shelter, our early ancestors simply had to make do. Case in point? In the deserts of Saudi Arabia, some of them apparently sought refuge from the oppressive heat by living ...
When it came to finding shelter, our early ancestors simply had to make do. Case in point? In the deserts of Saudi Arabia, some of them apparently sought refuge from the oppressive heat by living in ...