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The Artemis missions are turning our closest neighbor into a scientific laboratory that could reveal secrets about Earth's earliest days. With new seismometers and sensors arriving soon, scientists are finally getting the tools to answer questions that have puzzled them for decades.
For the first time in over 50 years, astronauts are returning to the moon, and this journey could transform how humanity views our closest celestial neighbor. Science writer Rebecca Boyle explores how our relationship with the moon has evolved from ancient timekeeping to this generation's chance to rediscover its profound importance to life on Earth.
The first private spacecraft to study the moon's interior just upended 50 years of scientific thinking. Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander discovered our closest neighbor in space might be far more geologically active than anyone imagined.
Scientists finally cracked a 50-year puzzle about the moon's magnetic past using rocks brought back by Apollo astronauts. The answer? Both theories were right.
Scientists just cracked a decades-old puzzle about the moon's magnetic past using rocks collected over 50 years ago. The answer was hiding in plain sight all along.
Rare lunar samples from China's Chang'e-6 mission just solved a 4-billion-year mystery about how a massive asteroid collision changed the Moon from the inside out. The discovery explains why one side of the Moon looks so different from the other.