The team analyzed fifteen Martian and lunar meteorites in the laboratory and ... but in quantities comparable to primitive basalts (deep-origin volcanic rocks). After correcting for temperature ...

New research from scientists with the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and published in the journal Science found that sample analysis backs up an established model of the moon as a global ...

Whittington says the surface of Earth’s Moon is made up largely of plains known as the lunar “mare” (Latin for “seas”), which is made of basalt. On the far side ... stirred up by the impacts of micro ...

Now, scientists say that difference could be more than skin deep. Using a lunar sample obtained last year, Chinese researchers believe that the insides of the moon’s far side are potentially ...