A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical signature, found in Africa in 2023, plugs a major gap in our understanding of the moon's volcanic history. Presented at the Goldschmidt ...

New research has cracked a vital process in the creation of a unique rock type from the Moon. The discovery explains its signature composition and very presence on the lunar surface at all, unraveling ...

India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission has obtained the first measurements of the composition of the soil near the Moon’s south pole 1. The minerals found offer further evidence that the lunar surface was ...

China's robotic spacecraft has brought back rocks and dust from the lunar far side that may solve enduring mysteries about the interior composition of the moon. The uncrewed Chang'e-6 mission capsule ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising discovery within lunar rocks collected over five decades ago. A tiny sample of the Moon, preserved since the Apollo 17 mission, has been hiding a secret that may ...

Image of the Northest Africa 16286 sample obtained using a scanning electron microscope. These are what’s referred to as “backscattered electron images”, and the different shades of grey highlight ...