The water distribution inside the Moon appears to be somewhat lopsided. According to an analysis of lunar materials collected from the far side of the Moon and delivered into the waiting hands of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Basalt samples from China's Chang'e-6 mission helped researchers for the first time to precisely measure the age of volcanic ...

A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical signature, found in Africa in 2023, plugs a major gap in our understanding of the moon's volcanic history. Presented at the Goldschmidt ...

The ancient strength of the lunar magnetic field recorded by the Chang'e-6 basalt clasts reveal the existence of a relatively active lunar dynamo at 2.8 Ga. The evolution of the lunar dynamo is ...

Our rocky satellite's real age is concealed by a "remelting" event that caused its surface to liquify, distorting the story told in lunar rocks. Reading time 2 minutes The Moon is Earth’s most ...

(CNN) — The moon has some new stories to tell. Scientists have published the first detailed analyses of the historic cache of lunar soil and rock that China retrieved from the far side of the moon ...

The Chang'e 6 mission successfully returned 1.935 kg of lunar farside samples, marking the first-ever sample return from this region. Analysis of these samples revealed basalt fragments dating back to ...

As humanity reaffirms its ambition to return to and sustainably inhabit the Moon, materials science is stepping into the spotlight. Among the enablers of this renewed lunar momentum are composite ...