Low, winding ridges run across the Moon’s dark plains like faint seams in cooled wax. They are easy to miss in a wide photo. Up close, they look like the surface has been gently pushed from below. A ...

The Moon, long treated as a geologically inert relic, is still contracting and cracking. A growing body of peer-reviewed research now confirms that tectonic faulting on the lunar surface has occurred ...

Scientists are proposing to build a laser in a crater on the moon to help future lunar missions land safely in the dark and find their way around. This ultra-stable light source could also help us ...

New observations of the Moon have now found small mare ridges (SMRs), faults located in the lunar maria, the dark basalt plains of the Moon. These are what we normally call seas, such as the Sea of ...

Scientists have discovered that Saturn's moon Enceladus creates a massive electromagnetic wake, revealing its major influence ...

Researchers have created the first worldwide map and detailed study of small mare ridges (SMRs), subtle geological features that signal tectonic ...

Researchers have uncovered more than a thousand previously unknown tectonic ridges across the Moon’s dark plains, showing the Moon is still contracting and reshaping itself. These features are among ...

Analysis of data from 122 countries shows that more sophisticated the financial system and greater the institutional strength ...

At just 500 kilometers across, Saturn's sixth-largest moon would fit comfortably inside the United Kingdom, with room to spare.

Debris from the collision could have formed another moon of Saturn called Hyperion, and affected the tilt of Saturn itself.

Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a characteristic geological feature of tectonic activity. The team’s discovery of how SMRs form ...

Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a characteristic geological feature of tectonic activity. Published in The Planetary Science Journal ...