Their findings confirm what was suspected for a long time: the early moon was once entirely engulfed in a molten “magma ocean ...

The Moon was once covered in a vast magma ocean, scientists have confirmed from samples collected by a Chinese spacecraft. A lunar lander, called Chang'e 6, landed on the little-explored far side ...

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

More fleeting glimpse, as the Earth's shadow is projected onto the full moon over the course of a few hours ... visible is a location in the Pacific Ocean south of Mexico and west of Ecuador.

It took more than half a year, but the first major study on these samples is here, and it points to the Moon having been an ocean of molten ... it was still young. Over time, the hot and liquid ...