A new review of ocean data suggests that more than 99.999 percent of the global deep seafloor has never been seen by humans. But what does that really mean?

The similarity in chemical composition across these samples, despite being taken from distant regions of the Moon, reinforces the theory that a global magma ocean once coated the Moon in its early ...

This would have meant the newly formed moon was covered entirely in magma: a global magma ocean, so hot and deep that it took at least tens of millions of years to cool and solidify into rock.

This supports the 'Lunar Magma Ocean' (LMO) theory which claims ... heavier minerals like olivine and pyroxene sank deep below to form the moon's mantle. The current lunar highlands are believed ...

The company's Reslience lunar lander will attempt to touch down in Mare Frigoris ("Sea of Cold"), a basalt plain in the ...

As our maps of the moon have improved ... the vents was a serendipitous discovery that was only made possible by deep-sea cameras. And, Bell points out, given the wonders we’ve already witnessed ...

The loss of the magma played a crucial role in the moon's landscape formation. There was once a magma-filled ocean on the south pole of the moon, scientists recently discovered after analyzing ...