The South Pole-Aitken basin is the moon's oldest and largest visible crater—a massive geological wound 4 billion years old ...

In 2020, the Chang’e-5 spacecraft returned moon rocks from the near side, the first since those collected by NASA’s Apollo astronauts and Soviet Union spacecraft in the 1970s. The Chang'e-4 ...

More precise dating of Apollo 14 moon rocks pegs age at 4.51 billion years A precise age is important for understanding how Earth evolved and how the solar system behaved in its formative years ...

In 2020, the Chang’e-5 spacecraft returned moon rocks from the near side, the first since those collected by NASA’s Apollo astronauts and Soviet Union spacecraft in the 1970s. The Chang’e-4 ...

Chinese researchers have had their first look at rock samples brought back from the far side of the Moon by its Chang’e-6 mission. The mission was China’s second excursion to the Moon’s far ...

The moon has a global dichotomy ... Volcanic eruptions flooded parts of the surface with lava, producing rocks known as mare basalts, which are more common on the near side, where they cover ...

Launched on 3 May, the mission aims to collect precious rock and soil from this region for the first time in history. The probe could extract some of the Moon's oldest rocks from a huge crater on ...

Volcanism on the moon, Earth and other planetary bodies involves the eruption of molten rock from the mantle — the layer just under the outer crust — onto the surface. The landing site in the ...