The presence of conduits below the lunar surface has been theorized and extensively debated for at least 50 years. Now, an ...

NASA has confirmed that it has discovered its first lava tube beneath the surface of the moon using data from its Lunar ...

If the ceiling of a solidified lava tube collapses, it opens a pit – but whether these pits provide access to caves has long been uncertain. The team focused on a roughly cylindrical pit in a ...

Using radar, a Nasa spacecraft, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), has confirmed the existence of caves beneath the lunar ...

(AP) - Scientists have confirmed a cave on the moon ... was created by the collapse of a lava tube. Researchers analyzed radar measurements by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and compared ...

The moon has more than 200 known pits such as the one at Mare Tranquillitatis, but it’s likely only a handful extend out to caves, Horvath said. Some of the lava tubes could also be inaccessible ...

In 2009, a team of experts identified a deep hole on the lunar surface, supporting the hypothesis that underground caves may have formed on the moon as a result of lava cooling below the surface.

But in the mid-term, when a permanent, sheltered, and secure base is needed on the Moon, underground caves and lava tubes are a natural next step. Scientists still have a lot of research to do on ...

Scientists have confirmed a cave on the moon, not far from where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed 55 years ago, and ...

It includes Geomunoreum, regarded as the finest lava tube system of caves anywhere, with its multicoloured carbonate roofs and floors, and dark-coloured lava walls; the fortress-like Seongsan ...