Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

In a paper published in National Science Review, a research team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences investigated impact ...

BEIJING - Based on research on lunar samples retrieved by Chang'e-6 mission, a team of Chinese scientists confirmed that the ...

has analyzed the samples returned by the Chang'e-6 mission, and precisely dated SPA basin's formation to 4.25 billion years ago. The SPA basin, a colossal scar stretching across the moon's far ...

A major breakthrough in space science has revealed the age of the Moon’s biggest and oldest crater—the South Pole–Aitken (SPA ...

Based on research on lunar samples retrieved by the Chang'e-6 mission, a team of Chinese scientists confirmed that the oldest and largest impact crater on the moon, the South Pole-Aitken basin, was ...