A study by Chinese scientists conducted paleomagnetic analyses on basalts returned by the Chang'e-6 mission and revealed a significant reinforcement of the lunar dynamo approximately 2.8 billion ...

“There are subtly different real hues from lunar basalts [blueish] and lava flows [reddish], and lots of color in some lunar samples,” Andrew Coates, a physics professor and the co ...

Tokyo-based company ispace aims to land its "Resilience" spacecraft in the moon's Mare Frigoris ("Sea of Cold") region on ...

The age of the basalt rock from the far side is surprisingly young compared with the previously studied lunar near-side samples, which were all more than 3 billion years old, said Clive Neal ...

The finding could explain the long-running mystery of why the surfaces of the lunar near and far sides are so different.

About that five-star red flag now in position on the far side of the moon — it's made of basalt, a type of volcanic rock that's plentiful on the lunar surface (as well as here on Earth).

Basalt samples returned by the Chang’e-6 mission have revealed volcanic events on the lunar farside at 2.8 billion years ago (Ga) and 4.2 Ga, according to research conducted by Prof. LI Qiuli ...