They were brought back to Earth by a Chinese spacecraft in 2020. Their chemical makeup indicates that until about 120 million years ago, there were active lunar volcanoes, which is much more recent ...

Researchers analyzed lunar soil brought back by China's Chang'e-6, the first spacecraft to return with a haul of rocks and ...

New research shows that volcanoes erupted on the far side of the moon billions of years ago, mirroring activity on the near ...

Li said the new findings reveal over 1 billion years of volcanic eruptions on the lunar far side. One piece of volcanic rock ...

Scientists release first analyses of samples from China’s Chang’e-6 mission, which landed on the lunar far side.

Chang’e-6 samples reveal two types of basalts, refining lunar volcanic timelines and showing young magmatism on the Moon’s ...

The first lunar samples from the moon’s far side differ in some interesting ways from those collected from the near side, ...

The first surface samples retrieved from the dark side of the moon show that there used to be erupting volcanoes there, just ...

Volcanoes were erupting on the mysterious far side of the moon billions of years ago just like on the side that we can see, new research confirms.

Scientists analyzed the first and only rock samples from the region, which were brought back to Earth as part of a recent ...

Volcanoes were erupting on the mysterious far side of the moon billions of years ago just like on the side that we can see, new research confirms. Researchers analyzed lunar soil brought back by China ...

New findings from basalt samples retrieved by China's Chang'e-6 mission reveal that volcanic activity on the Moon's farside dates back between 4.2 and 2.8 billion years. This research provides key ...