Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

A team of geologists at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, the Institute of Space Sciences and the Shandong ...

It noted that knowing the formation time of the 2,500-kilometer-wide SPA basin, which is located on the moon's far side, ...

Based on research on lunar samples retrieved by the Chang'e-6 mission, a team of Chinese scientists confirmed that the oldest ...

Chandrayaan-3 has discovered potential widespread ice deposits beneath the Moon's surface, especially near the poles. Significant temperature variatio ...

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 ...

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the solar system was just getting started, a Mars-size protoplanet named Theia ...

Researchers are still not sure how old the moon is. However, there is now growing evidence that it is almost as old as our ...

Chinese scientists, using lunar soil samples brought back by Chang'e-6, have determined that the Moon's oldest and largest impact crater, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin, was formed 4.25 billion ...

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

Intuitive Machines' IM-2 mission will launch no earlier than February 26th, aiming to land on the Moon's south pole around March 6th. The mission will focus on exploring the lunar south pole for ...