A joint research team from the Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGCAS) and Shandong University has for the first time identified crystalline hematite (α-Fe 2 O 3) and ...

Chinese scientists have discovered two new lunar minerals from the lunar samples brought back by China's Chang'e-5 mission.

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After sitting untouched in storage for nearly 50 years, lunar samples collected during the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions will be studied for the first time, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine ...

The Topographic Map illustrates the landing sites of the Chang'E Missions, Apollo Missions, and Luna Missions. Credit: NAOC A team of Chinese scientists has studied the first lunar farside samples ...

The significance of China's lunar exploration program has transcended national achievement. It has made unique contributions ...

For more than half a century, scientists pictured the Moon as an almost fully reduced world where iron stayed locked in low-oxygen states. That idea came from Apollo samples, which showed that solar ...

Tiny iron oxide grains found in lunar soil samples brought by the Chinese Chang’e-6 mission upend what was known about the Moon’s surface and magnetic properties, scientists revealed in a new study.

What can sulfur in the Moon’s mantle teach scientists about the Moon’s formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets hopes to address ...

Scientists in China have discovered and identified the 11th new lunar mineral, according to ...