Shortly after the Moon formed, an asteroid smacked into its southern hemisphere and gouged out a truly enormous crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, almost 1,500 miles across and more than five miles ...

The material Chang'e-6 will bring back will be the first samples from the lunar far side. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. China's ...

Lunar igneous activities including intrusive and extrusive magmatism, and their products contain significant information about the lunar interior and its thermal state. Their distribution is ...

Tiny iron oxide grains found in lunar soil samples brought by the Chinese Chang’e-6 mission upend what was known about the Moon’s surface and magnetic properties, scientists revealed in a new study.

Chang'e 6 aims to bring back samples from the mysterious far side. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. China's robotic Chang'e 6 ...

BEIJING, 22 August (BelTA - China Daily) - A study of lunar samples retrieved by the Chang'e 6 mission has dated the formation of the Apollo basin to 4.16 billion years ago, meaning the onset of the ...

NASA recently announced that it has down-selected three New Frontiers mission concepts for additional study. One of these missions, Moonrise, proposes to return rock and soil samples from the floor of ...

Elevation map of the Apollo and SPA basins Image 1: This is elevation map covering the eastern portion of South Pole-Aitken basin, including the Apollo Basin, made using data from Japan’s Kaguya ...