Volcanoes on the Moon May Have Erupted During the Dinosaur Age

Tuesday, October 14, 2014 - 07:30 in Astronomy & Space

Scientists previously thought that the moon's volcanic activity died down a billion years ago. But new data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, hints that lunar lava flowed much more recently, perhaps less than 100 million years ago.

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