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.

A joint research team from the Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGCAS) and Shandong University has for the first time identified crystalline hematite (α-Fe 2 O 3) and ...

Tiny iron oxide grains found in lunar soil samples brought by the Chinese Chang’e-6 mission upend what was known about the Moon’s surface and magnetic properties, scientists revealed in a new study.

The process on the surface of the Moon might not seem too alien, but were not all familiar as well. It was proved by the latest discovery made by Chinese scientists from the lunar soil samples brought ...

Lunar soil could help sustain a human colony on the Moon, a new study suggests. Scientists have developed a technology that they say may help people survive on Earth's only natural satellite. Chinese ...

The Apollo missions changed how scientists understand the moon. Returning with Artemis could help solve some of the biggest ...

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