A tiny glass bead retrieved by China's Chang'e-5 lunar mission is offering scientists a glimpse into the moon's hidden depths and providing insight into the violent forces that helped shape the ...

Typically, lunar glass beads are formed from impacts that melt surface rocks. However, the beads in this study were found to have unusually high levels of magnesium, which Professor Alexander ...

March 27 (Reuters) - Glass beads spawned in violent impacts from ... Chang'e-5 mission showed that these spheres of glass - rock melted and cooled - created in the impacts bore within them water ...

Scientists announced earlier this week that they have discovered water inside tiny beads of glass scattered across the moon, suggesting that one day it could be extracted and used by the ...

Glass beads are created when micro-meteorites slam into the surface melting rock around them. Previous analysis dating the age of the beads scooped up by Chang'e-5 spacecraft showed the area had ...

These shiny, multicolored glass beads were in samples returned from ... the result of the cooling of melted material ejected by incoming space rocks. Water could be extracted by heating the ...

The melted material is tossed into the air ... where gravity stretches them a little. The glass beads’ atoms are arranged in a haphazard manner. They’re composed of silicon, magnesium ...

“I took my first class, and my bead turned out awful,” Hanson said. “But it was just fun to watch it melt. I think I was addicted from day one.” Making glass beads is no simple endeavor. Depending on ...