Discover Magazine

First Evidence From Proto Earth May Be a Chemical Imbalance Hidden Inside Ancient Rocks

Learn about the chemical signature that may be the first evidence to come from proto Earth, the unruly first phrase of our ...

Arizona scientist wants NASA astronauts to collect lunar crater samples. Here's why

Solving a lunar mystery? Scientist at the University of Arizona is the lead author on research proposing a new theory for the ...
Space.com

Asteroid discovered only 2 days ago just flew by Earth closer than the moon

A newly discovered space rock zoomed safely by Earth on Wednesday (Oct. 15) at only about a quarter of the average distance ...

We were wrong about how the moon's largest and oldest crater formed — and that's great news for NASA's next lunar landing

A new study has revealed that our understanding of the South Pole-Aitken basin was quite literally back-to-front, meaning ...
Space.com

Scientists open untouched Apollo 17 lunar samples from 1972 — they may hold clues about the moon's violent origins

Scientists have found that a sample of the moon brought to Earth in 1972 by Apollo 17 astronauts contains a ratio of sulfur ...

NASA has a wild plan to return astronauts to the moon. Here’s why experts are starting to worry

Calls for the US to land astronauts back on the moon before China have been increasingly loud and frequent. But it all hinges on SpaceX’s Starship.
Futurism

There’s Something Really Strange About the Moon’s Largest Crater, Where NASA Astronauts Are Due to Land

We may have been wrong about how the Moon's largest crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, formed roughly 4.3 billion years ago ...