A team of researchers that includes chemistry students and faculty at California State University, Northridge have just ...

I grew up with the idea that the Moon was a dry, airless rock where metal simply sat unchanged for billions of years. The ...

BEIJING: Chinese scientists have identified micrometer-sized crystals of hematite and maghemite in lunar soil for the first time, using samples brought back by the Chang'e 6 mission from the moon's ...

The Chang'e 6 robotic mission — the world's first attempt to obtain samples from the moon's far side — was launched in May 2024 from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province. The mission ...

ChangE6 hematite discovery, lunar hematite, ChangE6 lunar samples, South Pole Aitken Basin, lunar oxidation, Moon magnetic anomalies &geology ...

For more than half a century, scientists pictured the Moon as an almost fully reduced world where iron stayed locked in ...

The Chang'e 6 robotic mission, the world's first attempt to bring samples from the far side of the moon, was launched in May ...

Lunar rocks brought back by China’s Chang’e-6 mission contain the first clear physical evidence of hematite and maghemite ...

A joint research team from the Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGCAS) and Shandong University ...