As it maneuvers into position for a landing attempt, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander captured some gorgeous video of the Moon rolling away below it.

More information: Xiaochao Che et al, Isotopic and compositional constraints on the source of basalt collected from the lunar far side, Science (2025). DOI: 10.1126/science.adt3332 ...

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 ...

China's Chang’e 6 returned the first samples from the moon’s far side, revealing volcanic secrets, impact history, and unique ...

New findings from China's Chang'e 6 lunar farside samples offer insights into the moon's volcanic past and mantle evolution.

Researchers weigh the Chang'e-6 lunar samples during a returner opening ceremony at the China Academy of Space Technology ...

The primary age of the basalt in the study samples is 2.823 billion years, and the characteristics of the source region validate the lunar magma ocean model. The findings also suggest that the ...

By analyzing basalt fragments retrieved from this region ... Hopping robot will hunt for moon water on China's Chang'e 7 lunar mission in 2026 At the same time, some of the material in the ...

A team of geologists at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, the Institute of Space Sciences and the Shandong Institute of Geological Sciences, all in China, has found evidence in soil ...