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

A tiny glass bead retrieved by China's Chang'e-5 lunar mission is offering scientists a glimpse into the moon's hidden depths ...

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 ...

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

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

This study, published in Icarus, challenges the traditional lunar magma ocean (LMO) model theory, which posits that the moon's early surface was formed from a magma ocean just a few hundred ...

Professor Carsten Münker at the University of Cologne is among seven international researchers to receive samples of soil and rocks from the Chinese Chang’e-5 mission, which returned to Earth five ...

“There cannot be a shallow magma ocean fueling the volcanoes,” said study co-author ... molten matter that got blasted off Earth by a giant impact event. But a lot of lunar crystals seem to have ...