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.

Measurements of the Enceladus ice shell conducted by NASA's Cassini probe, which orbited Saturn and its moons between 2004 and 2017, suggest the moon's subsurface ocean may have a temperature ...

From the Moon’s south pole to an ice-covered ocean world, these space missions are slated for 2024 A planetary scientist shares six of the space missions she's most excited to follow this year ...

Scientists have theorized that our moon was covered in a magma ocean for millions of years after it formed. Merikanto via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0. Roughly 4.5 ...