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

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

While making the deliveries, the Blue Ghost lander experienced one lunar day. During the course of that day, it captured ...

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

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

The SPA basin, a colossal scar stretching across the moon's far side, was likely formed during a barrage of asteroids pummeling much of the solar system within the first few hundred million years ...

In a paper published in National Science Review, a research team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences investigated impact ...

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China’s Chang’e 6 mission uncovers evidence of a molten lunar magma ocean and a violent ancient impact.

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 ...