Furthermore, the findings bolster the theory that the moon formed when a giant, Mars -size protoplanet slammed into the young ...

Chinese scientists have discovered that the moon's mantle contains less water on the lunar farside than on the nearside, ...

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known impact crater on the lunar surface. Recently, a research team led by Prof.

Chinese scientists analyzing samples from the Moon’s farside have uncovered that its mantle holds significantly less water ...

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 ...

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 ...

Explaining this, the paper proposes that the gigantic impact which formed the roughly 1,600 mile (2,500 kilometers) wide SPA basin around 4.2 billion years ago modified the chemical and physical ...

However, the SPA basin is an exception: as a giant impact basin, its floor is flooded by now-solid lava that welled up through the wound in the moon's surface from the mantle below, like blood ...