China's Chang'e 6 mission marked a milestone in lunar exploration by bringing back the first-ever samples from the far side of the Moon. Launched in early May 2024, the mission successfully landed in ...

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 ...

In a groundbreaking revelation, recent lunar samples brought back by China ... theory that the moon was once covered by avast magma oceanin its early days. This molten layer, believed to have ...

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 ...

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 ...

There is no positive europium anomaly in the average lunar highland crust. That crust cannot, therefore, have formed by plagioclase flotation from a lunar magma ocean, for which there is no other ...

Analysis of samples brought back from the farside of the Moon by the Chang'e 6 mission have found the water content of the ...

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 ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...