The Moon’s surface has two main rock types: white highland anorthosite and dark lowland basalt. While both are common on the ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has imaged the crash site of Resilience, a moon lander built and operated by the ...

A discovery of lunar glass beads continues to captivate scientists, shedding new light on the Moon’s volcanic history. These ...

Tiny glass beads from Apollo missions reveal Moon's ancient volcanic eruptions through sparkling mineral coatings.

The moon was slowly cooling down and running out of steam in its later volcanic stage. Its energy became weak over time.” ...

First introduced in 2014, the university exhibition zone has expanded this year to include institutions such as Nanjing ...

The Mystery of Consciousness: Neural Networks and Beyond The thalamocortical resonance hypothesis links consciousness to 40Hz gamma waves in the thalamus. Split-brain patients reveal separate ...

As a sign of China’s presence on the far side of the moon, the Chang’e-6 lunar probe unfurled a Chinese national flag on June 2024 during its sampling mission. The flag was woven from basalt fibre.

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

Asteroid Kamo'oalewa, about 50 meters wide, likely came from lunar basalt and may be linked to the Giordano Bruno crater's formation 1–10 million years ago. These fragments can enter "quasi ...

The team's findings, published on Thursday in the journal Nature, reveal that the mantle source of Chang'e 6 mare basalts contains 1 to 1.5 micrograms per gram of water, indicating that the lunar ...

Lunar basalt samples previously were obtained from the moon’s near side, which perpetually faces Earth, during US Apollo, Soviet Luna and Chinese Chang’e-5 missions. These showed that ...