At the end of June 2024, the Chang'e 6 probe returned to Earth with approximately 1,935.3 grams of lunar samples.Preliminary ...

With that in mind, it is not surprising that one of the most common gifts given by the United States during the 1970’s was ...

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

planetary scientists have long waited to get their hands on direct evidence--rock samples from the SPA basin itself--to ...

Based at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division, or ARES, ...

Asteroid 2024 PT5, discovered near Earth in 2024, is suspected to be a fragment from the Moon’s surface. Researchers found its composition matches lunar rock samples, specifically silicate-rich ...

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the Moon's South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...

In a paper published in National Science Review, a research team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences investigated impact ...

A major breakthrough in space science has revealed the age of the Moon’s biggest and oldest crater—the South Pole–Aitken (SPA ...