The moon's steadfast illumination ... of when tectonic activity has occurred and how the seismic energy attenuates through the regolith (unconsolidated rock and dust on top of bedrock) away ...

Many rocks on the moon are 3 to 4 billion years ... Jolliff says that it’s unclear why there was apparently volcanic activity on the moon for such a long period of time. Most of the moon ...

light-colored swirls on Moon's surface could be rocks magnetized by magma activity underground, laboratory experiments ... Geologists Expect Chang'e-6 Lunar Surface Samples to Contain Volcanic ...

NASA had undertaken a quixotic effort to get moon rocks without actually going to ... then probed for evidence of the superheating and cosmic-ray activity characteristic of exposure to space ...

On the moon, basalts are so prevalent ... It was during their extra-vehicular activity—in this case a moonwalk—that Schmitt, a geologist by training, saw a rock that stood out from the others.

Soil and rocks returned from the moon’s mysterious far side suggest it may be drier than the side constantly facing Earth, Chinese scientists reported Wednesday. But they cautioned more samples ...