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Lunar Geology

NASA Reveals 60‑Foot Moon Crater From SpaceX Falcon 9 Impact

LRO's before-and-after photos confirm an 18‑meter crater that gives scientists a rare real dataset to validate lunar impact models.

Lunar Meteorite Reveals a 3.486‑Billion‑Year‑Old, Extremely High‑Temperature Impact

Study Finds Shallow North-to-South Impact Shaped the Moon’s Largest Basin

Oxford Study Finds Moon’s Magnetic Field Was Mostly Weak Through Its History

New Global Map Reveals Young Lunar Fault Ridges, Expanding Moonquake Risk Zones

Apollo Soil Study Finds Meteorites Supplied Only a Small Share of Earth’s Water

Far-Side Moon Samples Link South Pole–Aitken Impact to Lunar Asymmetry

Chang'e-6 Samples Confirm Hematite and Maghemite on the Moon

Advanced Microscopy Reveals Fiery Origins of Apollo’s Orange Lunar Glass Beads