New research from scientists with the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and published in the journal Science found that sample analysis backs up an established model of the moon as a global ...

The basalt in the new samples is estimated to be 2.8 billion years old and supports the long-standing hypothesis of a lunar ...

China approved international requests, including from two U.S. universities, to borrow small portions of moon samples ...

Remnants of the magma ocean my still exist today as LLVPs, or giant "blobs" in Earth's mantle. (Image credit: By Sanne.cottaar - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link) Phases of formation The process would ...

China's Chang'e 6 mission marked a milestone in lunar exploration by bringing ... model that the Moon was covered by a global ocean of liquid magma during its early formation phase.

The Moon was once covered in a vast magma ocean, scientists have confirmed from samples collected by a Chinese spacecraft. A lunar lander, called Chang'e 6, landed on the little-explored far side ...

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 ...

They also found similarities in age. These findings bolster theories that during the moon's early years, it was covered by an ocean of magma. The magma ocean model suggests the moon experienced a ...

New model suggests an ocean of magma formed within the first few hundred million years of Earth's existence. . | Credit: NEMES LASZLO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images Earth held a deep ocean ...