The moon has some new stories to tell. Scientists have published the first detailed analyses of the historic cache of lunar soil and rock that China retrieved from the far side of the moon this year.

The Apollo lunar mission 50 years ago collected rock samples to be studied by scientists on Earth to understand their composition. These samples keep providing insights all these years later, ...

The basalt shared properties with a sample brought to Earth on Apollo 11, so researchers ground down the basalt into the very first lunar simulant. A sample of Minnesota Lunar Simulant, or MLS-1, at ...

A new study of Apollo lunar rocks suggests that the moon is older than anyone believed. The moon, researchers now say, likely formed about 50 million years after the solar system did, which is much ...

Chinese researchers have had their first look at rock samples brought back from the far side of the Moon by its Chang’e-6 mission. The mission was China’s second excursion to the Moon’s far side, ...

Graphical depiction of exotic igneous clasts in Chang’e-5 lunar regolith CREDIT IGCAS The Chang’e-5 mission touched down in the Mons Rümker region of the northern Oceanus Procellarum of the Moon and ...

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