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

While making the deliveries, the Blue Ghost lander experienced one lunar day. During the course of that day, it captured ...

Illustration of a stage in the formation of the Earth-moon system. The Earth had recently formed (4,600 million years ago) when it was struck by a large protoplanet, sometimes dubbed Theia, roughly ...

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

BEIJING - Based on research on lunar samples retrieved by Chang'e-6 mission, a team of Chinese scientists confirmed that the ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

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

Chinese scientists, using lunar soil samples brought back by Chang'e-6, have determined that the Moon's oldest and largest impact crater, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin, was formed 4.25 billion ...

It noted that knowing the formation time of the 2,500-kilometer-wide SPA basin, which is located on the moon's far side, ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

A team of geologists at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, the Institute of Space Sciences and the Shandong ...

Researchers are still not sure how old the moon is. However, there is now growing evidence that it is almost as old as our ...