Blackstone Minerals has continued its successful delineation of the Ban Chang sulphide discovery with ongoing drilling intersecting broad zones of nickel mineralisation. The company’s maiden drilling ...

The Chang'e-6 spacecraft stack showing, for the first time, an apparent lunar rover attached to the mission lander. Credit: CAST HELSINKI — China’s Chang’e-6 spacecraft appears to carry a previously ...

A Chinese research team recently conducted a systematic analysis of the Chang'e-6 lunar soil samples and, for the first time internationally, discovered and confirmed the presence of naturally formed ...

For more than half a century, scientists pictured the Moon as an almost fully reduced world where iron stayed locked in low-oxygen states. That idea came from Apollo samples, which showed that solar ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Sign up for CNN’s Meanwhile in China newsletter which explores what you need to know about the country’s rise and how it impacts the world. As Chinese scientists analyzed the soil ...

The Chang'e-5 mission's discovery of graphene in lunar soil challenges moon formation theories, reshaping our understanding of lunar geology. This significant finding prompts further research into the ...

Photo: Courtesy of Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences Chinese scientists have identified two previously unknown lunar minerals from the 1,731 grams of moon samples returned by Chang'e-5 mission, ...