The first sample of moon dust to arrive on Earth in nearly 50 years has landed safely in Milton Keynes, on loan from China.

China approved international requests, including from two U.S. universities, to borrow small portions of moon samples ...

working with colleagues at the OU to uncover the secrets of the Moon, including the presence of water on its surface. China's robotic Chang'e-5 mission was sent to a site on the lunar nearside called ...

delivered 1.73 kilograms of regolith from the Oceanus Procellarum, a plane named for ... Jan. 16, 2024 — New research shows the early lunar crust which makes up the surface of the Moon was ...

Professor Carsten Münker at the University of Cologne is among seven international researchers to receive samples of soil and rocks from the Chinese Chang’e-5 mission, which returned to Earth five ...

The study focused on six different sites on the Moon's nearside, including the Oceanus Procellarum, Mare Serenitatis, Mare Imbrium, Mare Tranquillitatis, and Mare Crisium. Analyzing night-time ...

Intuitive Machines will also carry packages to the moon next year. It has six payloads going to Oceanus Procellarum, a lunar “sea” that appears as a dark spot on the moon due to its basalt ...

The region towards the western edge of the Moon is dominated by the largest of the lunar seas; Oceanus Procellarum (Ocean of Storms). This is a massive region measuring approximately 1000 miles by ...

was ejected from its descent stage and rolled to a stop in Oceanus Procellarum, better known as the Ocean of Storms. Luna 9 took the first up-close images of the moon’s landscape, which conveyed ...

This meant that Surveyor 3 bounced off the moon, not once but twice – first ... as it landed softly in the southeastern region of Oceanus Procellarum. With its worst behind it, Surveyor 3 ...