China’s Chang’e 6 mission uncovers evidence of a molten lunar magma ocean and a violent ancient impact.

New findings from China's Chang'e 6 lunar farside samples offer insights into the moon's volcanic past and mantle evolution.

In a paper published in National Science Review, a research team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences investigated impact ...

By analyzing basalt fragments retrieved from this region, the scientists discovered that these rocks share a similar ... Hopping robot will hunt for moon water on China's Chang'e 7 lunar mission ...

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

Scientists have long known that volcanoes shaped the near side of the Moon, visible from Earth. However, very little was ...

The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...

This aims to map sources of water on the Moon to shed light on ... Surface Samples to Contain Volcanic Rock and Impact Ejecta June 24, 2024 — On June 25, China's Chang'e-6 (CE-6) lunar probe ...

China follows with the Yutu-2 rover in 2019, this time touching down on the moon’s unexplored far side — an impressive first. A sample return mission on the moon’s near side in 2020 yields nearly 4 ...

Chinese scientists, using lunar soil samples brought back by Chang'e-6, have determined that the Moon's oldest and largest ... these fragments are impact melt rocks, a new type of lunar Norite ...