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 ...

By analyzing basalt fragments retrieved from this region, the scientists discovered that these rocks share a similar ... by NASA's Apollo missions to the moon's near side. This connection helps ...

Researchers are using basalt spectra to study exoplanets and search for water with the James Webb Space Telescope. By ...

In the summer of 2024, a robotic mission landed for the first time on the far side of the Moon. The Chinese Chang’e-6 lander planted a flag, dug up more than four pounds of rock and soil, and ...

The first study on the Moon samples brought back by the Chinese Chang'e-6 mission show that the Moon's far side was just as molten as the near one eons ago.

Although the rocks that record the earliest parts of Earth’s history have been ... These mare cover around 16% of the moon’s surface and are visible with the naked eye as the dark patches on the moon.

Chinese scientists think it's time to rewrite the Moon's history after analyzing samples returned to Earth by the Chang'e 6 mission.… Their opinion appears in a paper titled "A reinforced lunar ...

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It doesn’t really contain moon dust, but their Basalt Moon Dust Filamet has a similar composition. You can see a video about the material below. It isn’t cheap, but it is probably cheaper than ...