Menu
Inshorts
For the best experience use inshorts app on your smartphone
inshortsinshorts
Chinese scientists discover two new rare-earth lunar minerals
short by Sunny Sharma / on Friday, 24 April, 2026
Chinese scientists discovered two new lunar minerals, namely magnesiochangesite-(Y) and changesite-(Ce), from samples returned by the Chang’e-5 mission. Both are rare-earth phosphate minerals found in microscopic lunar soil grains, featuring unique crystal structures not seen on Earth. The discovery follows their 2022 find of changesite-(Y), taking the global count of lunar minerals to eight.
read more at Xinhua