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Published online 8 November 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news061106-12

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The Moon has gas

Eruptions confound the idea that our nearest neighbour is a geological dead zone.

Some think the Moon has been geologically dead for billions of years. But Peter Schultz of Brown University, Rhode Island, is not one of them.

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