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 upcoming Artemis missions could potentially ...

Rocks that China’s Chang’e-6 mission carried back from the Moon’s far side in 2024 are now being used to explain why the two ...

Scientists may have solved a long-standing mystery about why the Moon’s two sides are so different, using samples collected ...

Scientists have shown how the freezing of a ‘slushy’ ocean of magma may be responsible for the composition of the Moon’s crust. The scientists, from the University of Cambridge and the Ecole normale ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There was once a magma-filled ocean on the south pole of the moon, scientists recently discovered after analyzing lunar soil that ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Earth's calm and cool lunar companion may indeed once have been a ...

The Earth’s Moon had a rough start in life. Formed from a chunk of the Earth that was lopped off during a planetary collision, it spent its early years covered by a roiling global ocean of molten ...

Data from India's recent Chandrayaan-3 mission supports the idea that an ocean of molten rock once covered the moon. Scientists from the mission have published their new findings in the journal Nature ...

Less visible and vocal than its American counterpart, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) is hard at work expanding the Asian country's presence on the Moon. Not only that, but the ...

A year ago, India’s Pragyan rover began a nine Earth-day-long trek across a mysterious region of the Moon. The robotic explorer encountered both smooth terrain as well as places filled with boulders ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Using images snapped by NASA's Juno spacecraft, gravitational measurements, and historical data about Io's tidal deformations, an ...

There's a new theory for how the Moon came to be that would solve some of the Giant Impact Hypothesis' issues. If Earth had a magma ocean on it already, a lot of problems work out. Share on Facebook ...