The lunar surface as a recorder of astrophysical processes

The end of the lunar dynamo

(2020) Saied Mighani et al.   Science Advances

The Moon’s farside shallow subsurface structure unveiled by Chang’E-4 Lunar Penetrating Radar

(2020) Chunlai Li et al.   Science Advances

Stellar encounters with Giant Molecular Clouds

(2019) Giorgi Kokaia et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The timing of basaltic volcanism at the Apollo landing sites

(2019) Joshua F. Snape et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

The constancy of galactic cosmic rays as recorded by cosmogenic nuclides in iron meteorites

(2019) Thomas Smith et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Earth's Impact Events Through Geologic Time: A List of Recommended Ages for Terrestrial Impact Structures and Deposits

(2019) Martin Schmieder et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

A database of noble gases in lunar samples in preparation for mass spectrometry on the Moon

(2019) N.M. Curran et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Constraining the Evolutionary History of the Moon and the Inner Solar System: A Case for New Returned Lunar Samples

(2019) Romain Tartèse et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

Mapping the location of terrestrial impacts and extinctions onto the spiral arm structure of the Milky Way

(2018) Michael P Gillman et al.   International Journal of Astrobiology

The solar wind in time: a change in the behaviour of older winds?

(2018) D Ó Fionnagáin et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Ina pit crater on the Moon: Extrusion of waning-stage lava lake magmatic foam results in extremely young crater retention ages

(2017) Le Qiao et al.   GEOLOGY

Generation, ascent and eruption of magma on the Moon: New insights into source depths, magma supply, intrusions and effusive/explosive eruptions (Part 2: Predicted emplacement processes and observations)

(2017) James W. Head et al.   ICARUS

Do lunar and meteoritic archives record temporal variations in the composition of solar wind noble gases and nitrogen? A reassessment in the light of Genesis data

(2016) Rainer Wieler   CHEMIE DER ERDE-GEOCHEMISTRY

Recent near-Earth supernovae probed by global deposition of interstellar radioactive 60Fe

(2016) A. Wallner et al.   NATURE

Prebiotic chemistry and atmospheric warming of early Earth by an active young Sun

(2016) V. S. Airapetian et al.   Nature Geoscience

InterstellarFe60on the Surface of the Moon

(2016) L. Fimiani et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Argon diffusion in Apollo 16 impact glass spherules: Implications for 40 Ar/ 39 Ar dating of lunar impact events

(2015) David J. Gombosi et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

40 Ar/ 39 Ar ages of lunar impact glasses: Relationships among Ar diffusivity, chemical composition, shape, and size

(2015) N.E.B. Zellner et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Regolith stratigraphy at the Chang'E-3 landing site as seen by lunar penetrating radar

(2015) Wenzhe Fa et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Disc dark matter in the Galaxy and potential cycles of extraterrestrial impacts, mass extinctions and geological events

(2015) Michael R. Rampino   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Ages of Globally Distributed Lunar Paleoregoliths and Soils from 3.9 Ga to the Present

(2014) Amy L. Fagan et al.   EARTH MOON AND PLANETS

Evidence for basaltic volcanism on the Moon within the past 100 million years

(2014) S. E. Braden et al.   Nature Geoscience

The lunar dynamo

(2014) Benjamin P. Weiss et al.   SCIENCE

Occurrence Probability of Large Solar Energetic Particle Events: Assessment from Data on Cosmogenic Radionuclides in Lunar Rocks

(2013) G. A. Kovaltsov et al.   SOLAR PHYSICS

The Two Sources of Solar Energetic Particles

(2013) Donald V. Reames   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

Mass extinction and the structure of the milky way

(2013) M.D. Filipovic et al.   Serbian Astronomical Journal

COMPOSITION OF THE SOLAR CORONA, SOLAR WIND, AND SOLAR ENERGETIC PARTICLES

(2012) J. T. Schmelz et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE COSMIC-RAY INTENSITY NEAR THE ARCHEAN EARTH

(2012) O. Cohen et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

LunarVader: Development and Testing of Lunar Drill in Vacuum Chamber and in Lunar Analog Site of Antarctica

(2012) K. Zacny et al.   JOURNAL OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

Back to the Moon: The scientific rationale for resuming lunar surface exploration

(2012) I.A. Crawford et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Confirmation of sublunarean voids and thin layering in mare deposits

(2012) M.S. Robinson et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

The faint young Sun problem

(2012) Georg Feulner   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Numerical modeling of lava-regolith heat transfer on the Moon and implications for the preservation of implanted volatiles

(2012) M. Elise Rumpf et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

Toward a global space exploration program: A stepping stone approach

(2011) Pascale Ehrenfreund et al.   ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH

The Galactic Cosmic Ray Intensity over the Past 106–109 Years as Recorded by Cosmogenic Nuclides in Meteorites and Terrestrial Samples

(2011) Rainer Wieler et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

Project Icarus: A review of local interstellar medium properties of relevance for space missions to the nearest stars

(2010) Ian A. Crawford   ACTA ASTRONAUTICA

Lunar Palaeoregolith Deposits as Recorders of the Galactic Environment of the Solar System and Implications for Astrobiology

(2010) Ian A. Crawford et al.   EARTH MOON AND PLANETS

Individual lava flow thicknesses in Oceanus Procellarum and Mare Serenitatis determined from Clementine multispectral data

(2010) Shoshana Z. Weider et al.   ICARUS

Penetration of nearby supernova dust in the inner solar system

(2010) Themis Athanassiadou et al.   NEW ASTRONOMY

Diviner Lunar Radiometer Observations of Cold Traps in the Moon's South Polar Region

(2010) D. A. Paige et al.   SCIENCE

Detection of Water in the LCROSS Ejecta Plume

(2010) A. Colaprete et al.   SCIENCE

Habitable Zones Exposed: Astrosphere Collapse Frequency as a Function of Stellar Mass

(2009) David S. Smith et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

TESTING THE LINK BETWEEN TERRESTRIAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND GALACTIC SPIRAL ARM TRANSIT

(2009) Andrew C. Overholt et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Lunar Radar Sounder Observations of Subsurface Layers Under the Nearside Maria of the Moon

(2009) T. Ono et al.   SCIENCE

Drilling Systems for Extraterrestrial Subsurface Exploration

(2008) K. Zacny et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Deriving historical total solar irradiance from lunar borehole temperatures

(2008) Hiroko Miyahara et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS