A new study of the lunar samples collected by China's Chang'e 6 mission has verified the hypothesis that the moon was ...

The first study on the Moon samples brought back by the Chinese Chang'e-6 mission show that the Moon's far side was just as ...

This photo taken and beamed back to Earth autonomously by a mini rover released from the lander-ascender combination of Chang ...

Moon was once covered by global magma ocean but later bombardments of asteroids caused different evolution processes,’ ...

A new study of the lunar samples collected by China's Chang'e-6 mission has verified the hypothesis that the Moon was ...

As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...

Long ago, the moon was molten. It was covered by a magma ocean. The moon had just formed, accreting from the debris spewed into space by the violent collision of Earth with a Mars-size planet.

Io does not have a shallow global magma ocean beneath its surface, counter to previous claims, suggests a paper published in Nature. Observations from NASA's Juno spacecraft, combined with all ...

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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Image processing by Jason Perry For decades, researchers speculated that the entire subsurface of Io was one big magma ocean. However, last year, researchers ...

[Photo/Xinhua] A new study of the lunar samples collected by China's Chang'e-6 mission has verified the hypothesis that the moon was entirely covered by a molten "magma ocean" in the early stages ...

These findings validate the lunar magma ocean hypothesis, which states that the moon experienced global-scale melting shortly after its formation, creating a vast magma ocean. As the molten ...