The Moon has long captivated humanity, inspiring awe with its shifting appearance and mysterious, hidden side. Even though it ...

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Scientists have officially resolved a long-standing mystery about the Moon’s internal structure, confirming that its inner ...

A relationship diagram of hadron structure models. Credit: Physical Review D (2025). ... NASA spacecraft around the moon photographs the crash site of a Japanese company's lunar lander.

The moon is one of the most extreme and hostile environments in the solar system: It features wild temperature swings in and out of sunlight, it’s occasionally rocked by intense moonquakes, and ...

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