Our rocky satellite's real age is concealed by a "remelting" event that caused its surface to liquify, distorting the story ...

In an "idea paper" published on December 18 in Nature, UC Santa Cruz Professor Francis Nimmo and his co-authors propose a ...

Heat from tidal forces remelted the Moon’s crust, says new reesarch, which may explain why the Moon is older than some ...

Back when the Moon was newly formed, before it settled into a more circular orbit, the Moon's orbit may have been eccentric ...

A group of experts claims that a geological event has confused the age of the satellite, which could be up to 180 million ...

The moon may have received a volcanic facelift, making it more than 100 million years older than rocks collected from its ...

The Moon is much older than previously thought. Its crust was reheated after its formation - and has thus misled researchers ...

He suggested that during this period, our Moon resembled Io for similar reasons. "There would have been volcanoes jetting off ...

New research suggests the moon could actually be 4.51 billion years old, rather than the previously agreed upon age of 4.35 ...

"Was there a shallow ocean of white-hot magma fueling the volcanoes, or was their source more localized? We knew data from Juno's two very close flybys could give us some insights on how this ...

Io does not have a shallow global magma ocean beneath its surface, counter to previous claims, suggests a paper published in Nature. Observations from NASA's Juno spacecraft, combined with all ...