During many of these eruptions, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory field crews documented “ooze outs” — where lava squeezes out ...

An exhaustive examination of lunar gravity using data obtained by two Nasa robotic spacecraft is offering new clues about why ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered a haunting rock formation on Mars that looks unsettlingly like a skull. Dubbed "Skull Hill," the jet-black outcrop is so bizarre and out of place that even ...

The researchers discovered that the lunar nearside flexes slightly more than the farside during its elliptical orbit around ...

NASA's GRAIL mission reveals the Moon's two sides are strikingly different, with the nearside being warmer and more ...

These types of rocks often contain dark minerals like olivine and pyroxene, which are rich in iron and magnesium. "Lucky for us, the rover has instruments that can measure the chemical ...

The mantle makes up roughly 80% of the moon's mass and volume and is composed mostly of the minerals olivine and pyroxene, similar to Earth's mantle. "The fact that the detected asymmetry in the ...