China's Chang'e-6 spacecraft retrieved surface samples from the moon's far side, revealing new data on ancient lunar ...

The first lunar samples from the moon’s far side differ in some interesting ways from those collected from the near side, ...

By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, scientists have started developing a library of basalt-based spectral signatures that not only will help reveal the composition of ...

Scientists are trying to figure out how minerals connected to exoplanetary water would look to the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Oregon’s state geologist is pitching a novel idea of using the region’s rocky basalt layer – born of lava that flowed ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will take a new approach in its quest to find water-rich exoplanets. It will analyze ...

Volcanic rock, dating back billions of years, has been detected in the first samples collected from the mysterious "dark side ...

Antrim by basalt, Down by sandstone, Fermanagh by limestone! Although all rocks might start out as igneous rocks, some of these rocks are then broken down into smaller pieces. These tiny broken ...

The moon has a global dichotomy, with its near and far sides having different geomorphology, topography, chemical composition ...

After analyzing the sample brought by Chang'e-6, researchers found that the moon’s oldest and deepest crater on its far side ...