Scientists have uncovered ancient secrets buried deep beneath the surface of the moon, thanks to China’s Chang’e-4 mission.

Every crater, rock and speck of dust on the Moon tells a story, but because it's not exactly close to our planet, this history is a little harder to study than say, the Grand Canyon.

The largest crater on the moon was probably created when a huge rock smashed into the surface 4.338 billion years ago, leaving behind a seething pool of magma.

Despite having the wrong ideas about how the Moon’s craters formed, these 19th-century astronomers created highly accurate plaster models.

According to a popular formation theory, the moon came together when a Mars-sized body crashed into a young Earth near the beginning of our solar system formation about 4.6 billion years ago.

The Moon was formed more than 4 billion years ago, when a Mars-sized object collided with Earth. It is estimated that roughy 225 new impact craters are formed on the lunar surface about every ...

The next big space threat isn't to Earth. It's to the Moon.

The moon’s soil is filled with small spheres of glass. These pieces of glass, often called beads, formed millions of years ago when asteroids slammed into the lunar surface, according to a new ...

The Moon may have remelted after it first formed Early interactions with the Earth may have heated up the Moon and caused it to remelt, producing new lunar rocks and erasing old craters.

The largest crater on the moon was probably created when a huge rock smashed into the surface 4.338 billion years ago, leaving behind a seething pool of magma.This hints that Earth was ...