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A new public sculpture has taken its place at Huntsville Hospital, offering a bold new artistic landmark along Governors Drive. Titled "Moon Gate," the striking 21-foot-tall, 25-foot-wide ...

A new golden age of lunar exploration is in full swing, and the Moon is no longer the province of global superpowers alone. Skip to content Introducing the all-new Astronomy.com Forum!

Now, a new study suggests a possible explanation for this discrepancy — the lunar surface "remelted" 4.35 billion years ago. This would have reset the age of lunar rocks, masking the moon's true ...

The moon appears to be roughly 40 million years older than previously thought, new research shows. (This story first aired on All Things Considered on October 27, 2023.) Accessibility links ...

The new dating system doesn't change estimates of the moon's age as a whole, which remains around 4.53 billion years. The "Man in the Moon" is older than we thought. Scientists have proposed ...

NASA’s bid for the moon and the new age of space exploration. NASA astronauts Christina Koch, ...

Scientists have shown that a "remelting event" more than 4.3 billion years ago "reset" the internal clock of most lunar rocks, which has helped obscure the moon's true age.

Space The moon is 40 million years older than we thought it was. A new look at the age of zircon crystals in a lunar rock sample brought back by NASA's Apollo 17 mission in 1972 has revealed that ...