Scientists have uncovered evidence of a hidden ocean beneath the Moon’s surface—suggesting it may hold more water than previously believed, with major implications for future space missions.

The first study on the Moon samples brought back by the Chinese Chang'e-6 mission show that the Moon's far side was just as molten as the near one eons ago.

An artist's rendition of a magma ocean on a volcanic planet. Scientists have theorized that our moon was covered in a magma ocean for millions of years after it formed. Merikanto via Wikimedia ...

The moon has been long theorized to have formed due to a Mars-sized planet named Theia slamming into the early Earth some 4.5 billion years ago, with the remains of the collision eventually coming ...

Data from ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 mission supports the theory of a 'magma ocean' on the Moon, as published in Nature. The Pragyan rover found uniformly composed lunar soil, supporting the hypothesis ...

Rocks collected by the Chandrayaan-3 offer more clues to the moon's violent past. ... The moon was once covered in an ocean of magma: new data supports theory.

This is consistent with the Lunar Magma Ocean hypothesis — known as the LMO — which holds that the moon’s crust formed as magma cooled roughly 4.4 billion years ago. Advertisement ...

A new study relied on data India's Chandrayaan-3 mission collected near the lunar south pole. Its rover found evidence supporting a popular Moon creation story.

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Saturn has 146 confirmed moons – more than any other planet in the solar system – but one called Enceladus stands out. It appears to have the ingredients for life. From 2004 to 2017, Cassini – a joint ...

The subsurface ocean of Jupiter’s moon Europa may have far less oxygen—and less potential for life—than previously believed, according to data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft ...

A diagram showing the interior of Saturn’s moon diagram, including its deep ocean. (Image credit: A. D. Fortes/UCL/STFC) For example, Neish's team estimates only about 7,500 kilograms (16,534 ...