China's Chang'e-6 mission landed on the moon’s South Pole-Aitken Basin, according to the China National Space Administration ...

Furthermore, the findings bolster the theory that the moon formed when a giant, Mars -size protoplanet slammed into the young Earth about 4.5 billion years ago and sent a cascade of debris into orbit ...

China's Chang'e-6 mission landed on the moon’s South Pole-Aitken Basin, according to the China National Space Administration ...

An image of the Chang'e 6 lander on the lunar surface at the far side of the moon. | Credit: CNSA There's less water in the mantle beneath the farside of the moon than in the mantle on the ...

For the first time, scientists hold real dirt from the Moon’s farside, thanks to China’s Chang’e-6—a game-changer in lunar exploration (National Science Review, 2025). Graduate researcher ...

The Moon’s farside mantle is much drier than the nearside, according to new data from China’s Chang’e-6 mission, revealing a hidden hemispheric divide in lunar water. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Chinese ...

China approved international requests, including from two U.S. universities, to borrow small portions of moon samples ...

China’s Chang’e-6 mission – the first to land on this remote region – has found that the far side of the Moon may be drier than its nearside counterpart. The findings are based on the first-ever ...

The Chang'e-6 mission returned soil samples from the South Pole–Aitken impact basin of the lunar farside, providing an opportunity to study the water contents of the farside mantle. Listen to Story ...