A joint research team from the Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGCAS) and Shandong University ...

Lunar rocks brought back by China’s Chang’e-6 mission contain the first clear physical evidence of hematite and maghemite ...

A new computer simulation shows the swift formation of the moon after a Mars-sized body struck the early Earth 4.5 billion years ago. The impact led to two blobs of material, the larger of which ...

Scientists have studied our solar system, which is home to eight major planets and more than 400 known moons orbiting six of them, to understand the new phase of the moon formation observed around a ...

Recent research has shed light on the role of the Moon’s largest impact crater in explaining the stark visual and geological differences between the Moon’s near side, which faces Earth, and its far ...

A Chinese research team has achieved a major breakthrough in lunar science by analyzing samples returned by China's Chang'e-6 mission. For the first time, micrometer-scale hematite and maghemite ...

Planetologists from Münster explain how the Earth became a habitable planet / Publication in "Nature Astronomy" The Earth is unique in our solar system: It is the only terrestrial planet with a large ...

(MENAFN) NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled the first detailed chemical profile of a potential moon-forming disc surrounding a giant exoplanet, a breakthrough discovery that could offer ...

The study also compared the results with measurements of lunar anorthosites, which are rare rocks on Earth but very common on ...

Our Solar System is thought to have formed 4,567 billion years ago, followed by the Moon about 100 million years later. Numerous “impactors” would have excavated more Earth material than a single one, ...

New study led by Thomas R. Watters of the Smithsonian Institution reveals that the Moon has been gradually shrinking over the past few hundred million years. Data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ...