Data from India's recent Chandrayaan-3 mission supports the idea that an ocean of molten rock once covered the moon.

AN ENORMOUS magma ocean once blanketed our planet, and it may have had a big role in the birth of the Moon. That’s according to an exciting new study, which claims half of the lava pool was f… ...

Zircons are used to date the Earth’s oldest rocks now, Jack Hills at 4.375 billion years old so this new model for the magma ocean of the Moon and Theia time of impact and origin of the Moon ...