China's Chang'e 5 mission brought back evidence that the moon had erupting volcanoes just 120 million years ago.

A collection of glass beads retrieved by China's Chang'e-5 lunar mission revealed that the moon might have been geologically ...

"We measured high abundances of rare earth elements and thorium in these volcanic glass ... enrichment of heat-generating elements in the mantle sources of the magma," write Wang and Zhang's ...

Lunar samples obtained before the mission indicated that the moon's volcanic activities had ceased approximately 3 billion ...

The mantle contains uranium, thorium and potassium, each of which is radiogenic and produces heat as a by-product of radioactive decay. Many of these radiogenic elements are extracted from the mantle ...

The key to this continued volcanism might lie in the heat-generating elements present within the Moon’s mantle. Elements such as uranium, thorium, and potassium generate heat through radioactive ...

This includes melting the Moon’s mantle so small amounts of magma can “erupt” to the surface. “We measured high abundances of rare earth elements and thorium in these volcanic glass beads, which could ...

Lavas from hotspots - -whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland -- likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth's mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots.