Their findings confirm what was suspected for a long time: the early moon was once entirely engulfed in a molten “magma ocean ...

The Moon was once covered in a vast magma ocean, scientists have confirmed from samples collected by a Chinese spacecraft. A lunar lander, called Chang'e 6, landed on the little-explored far side ...

New research from scientists with the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and published in the journal Science found that sample analysis backs up an established model of the moon as a global ...

It took more than half a year, but the first major study on these samples is here, and it points to the Moon having been an ocean of molten ... it was still young. Over time, the hot and liquid ...

Our Solar System, like a sneaky little hobbit, seems to have stuffed its pockets full ... big problem for Earth-based scientists who desperately want to take a peek at those liquid centers, but ...

A Chinese study found that the Moon was wholly covered by a molten “magma ocean” in the early phases of its formation. A study by the China National Space Administration, published in the ...