A giant impact crater on the moon may contain primordial pieces of the lunar mantle and remnants of an ancient magma ocean, ...

A research team led by Prof. Di Kaichang from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of ...

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

The far side of the moon was once a vast magma ocean, Chinese lunar lander confirms — A giant crater on the moon may hold ...

Sinha said during the end of the lunar magma ocean (LMO) crystallisation stages, when the Moon’s initial molten state solidified, the residual molten layer became enriched in a mineral called ...

Credit: NASA/GSFC/University of Arizona A giant impact crater on the moon may contain primordial pieces of the lunar mantle and remnants of an ancient magma ocean, researchers say. Crewmembers on ...