A giant impact crater on the moon may contain primordial pieces of the lunar mantle and remnants of an ancient magma ocean, ...

India's Chandrayaan-3 and China's Chang'e-6 missions have independently discovered primitive lunar mantle materials near the ...

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Credit: NASA/GSFC/University of Arizona A giant impact crater on the moon may contain primordial pieces of the lunar mantle and remnants of an ancient magma ocean, researchers say. Crewmembers on ...

The Chandrayaan-3 landing site is seen to be a promising place for future missions to collect samples, particularly to study ...

The mystery of life’s beginnings has long captivated scientists. Central to that search is LUCA—the last universal common ...

Look for the Leo half-moon high in the sky at sunset tonight. This waxing first-quarter moon marks a midpoint — positioned ...

This is called the "seas of the moon," or maria. Maria means sea in Latin. Ancient astronomers named it this way because these traces resembled seas. It is not an actual sea. They are dark regions ...

CC0 1.0 Universal The Eye of Horus was also associated with the waxing and waning of the moon, which may have helped increase its appeal, said Gyula Priskin, an ancient historian at the University ...