A major solution to the climate crisis may lie at the bottom of the ocean. Across the planet, basalt rock deposits on the sea ...

A schematic image of subducted oceanic crust inferred from this study. Basalt and harzburgite layers of the oceanic crust accumulate beneath and above the 660 km discontinuity, respectively.

BEIJING -- A new study of the lunar samples collected by China's Chang'e 6 mission has verified the hypothesis that the moon ...

Moon was once covered by global magma ocean but later bombardments of asteroids caused different evolution processes,’ ...

BEIJING: A new study of the lunar samples collected by China's Chang'e-6 mission has verified the hypothesis that the Moon ...

The basalt present in the Chang'e-6 samples is primarily 2.823 billion years old, and its characteristics support the lunar magma ocean model. The research also suggests that the impact event that ...