After analyzing the sample brought by Chang'e-6, researchers found that the moon’s oldest and deepest crater on its far side ...

The moon has a global dichotomy, with its near and far sides having different geomorphology, topography, chemical composition ...

China's Chang'e-6 robotic spacecraft in June made history by retrieving the first surface samples from the far side of the ...

Growing up, most of us learned that Earth is home to seven continents ... North American and Eurasian tectonic plates – started to give way, creating a hot mantle plume that formed into a volcanic ...

Since the formation of Earth approximately 4.5 billion years ago, the convection and release of hot magma in its mantle layer ...

Astronomers have been curious about the makeup of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, ever since its discovery by ...

Text and pictures by PRIYAN DE SILVA   The Institute for Development of Community Strength (INDECOS) which is based in Matara ...

One of the most puzzling phenomena lies beneath the Indian Ocean, south of Sri Lanka, where a massive gravity anomaly known as the Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL) has confounded researchers for decades, ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...