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Lunar dichotomy in surface water storage of impact glass beads

The storage of solar wind-derived water of impact glass beads exhibits a dichotomy distribution in the lunar soils.

Huicun He
Sen Hu
Fu-Yuan Wu
ResearchOpen Access29 May 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-12
In search of signs of life on Mars with China’s sample return mission Tianwen-3

China is planning to launch its Tianwen-3 mission, with the purpose of bringing back a sample from Mars, by the end of the decade. This Perspective presents the scientific objectives and architecture of Tianwen-3, including a preliminary selection of landing sites and a description of the Mars Sample Laboratory that will curate the material on Earth.

Zengqian Hou
Jizhong Liu
Xin Zou
Reviews19 Jun 2025
Nature Astronomy

Volume: 9, P: 783-792
Lunar regolith and substructure at Chang’E-4 landing site in South Pole–Aitken basin

Three different layers can be distinguished in the first 500 metres of depth beneath the South Pole–Aitken basin on the Moon: a first layer made up by regolith and ejecta material from different craters, followed by a middle unit of mare basalts and finally a >200-m-thick layer of ejecta from the Leibnitz crater.

Jinhai Zhang
Bin Zhou
Ziyuan Ouyang
Research07 Sept 2020
Nature Astronomy

Volume: 5, P: 25-30
Water abundance in the lunar farside mantle

An estimate of water abundance in the lunar mantle indicates that the farside mantle is potentially drier than its nearside counterpart.

Huicun He
Linxi Li
Yangting Lin
ResearchOpen Access09 Apr 2025
Nature

P: 1-5
Buried palaeo-polygonal terrain detected underneath Utopia Planitia on Mars by the Zhurong radar

The Zhurong rover identified polygonal terrain at a depth of 35 m under Utopia Planitia on Mars. This finding suggests that the mid-latitudinal region experienced a cold and wet environment near the freezing point of water around the Hesperian–Amazonian transition, possibly induced by Mars’s high obliquity.

Lei Zhang
Chao Li
Yongxin Pan
ResearchOpen Access23 Nov 2023
Nature Astronomy

Volume: 8, P: 69-76
Long-term reduced lunar mantle revealed by Chang’e-5 basalt

The lunar mantle may have remained reduced, according to the oxygen fugacity of 2.0 Ga Chang’e-5 basalt that is similar to 3.6 − 3.0 Ga Apollo basalts and pyroclastic glasses.

Huijuan Zhang
Wei Yang
Fuyuan Wu
ResearchOpen Access27 Sept 2024
Nature Communications

Volume: 15, P: 1-9
Reply to: Stratigraphy versus artefacts in the Chang’e-4 low-frequency radar

Jinhai Zhang
Bin Zhou
Yangting Lin
Research15 Sept 2021
Nature Astronomy

Volume: 5, P: 894-897
WDR77 inhibits prion-like aggregation of MAVS to limit antiviral innate immune response

MAVS aggregation initiates innate immune defences and is closely regulated to limit excessive inflammation. Here, Li et al identify and characterise a negative regulator of MAVS signalling and its impact on virus infection.

Jiaxin Li
Rui Zhang
Fajian Hou
ResearchOpen Access10 Aug 2023
Nature Communications

Volume: 14, P: 1-15
Author Correction: WDR77 inhibits prion-like aggregation of MAVS to limit antiviral innate immune response

Jiaxin Li
Rui Zhang
Fajian Hou
Amendments and CorrectionsOpen Access25 Sept 2023
Nature Communications

Volume: 14, P: 1-2
Surges in volcanic activity on the Moon about two billion years ago

This work estimates the eruption volume of the young Chang’e-5 lunar samples using diffusion chronology and thermodynamic simulations, and finds that there was an increase in volcanic eruption flux about 2.0 billion years ago.

Heng-Ci Tian
Chi Zhang
Fuyuan Wu
ResearchOpen Access22 Jun 2023
Nature Communications

Volume: 14, P: 1-9
A solar wind-derived water reservoir on the Moon hosted by impact glass beads

Analysis of lunar soils sampled by the Chang’e-5 mission suggests that impact glass beads may host a substantial inventory of solar wind-derived water on the Moon’s surface.

Huicun He
Jianglong Ji
Fuyuan Wu
ResearchOpen Access27 Mar 2023
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 16, P: 294-300
A dry lunar mantle reservoir for young mare basalts of Chang’e-5

Water abundance and hydrogen isotope compositions of two-billion-year-old basalt samples returned from the Moon by the Chang’e-5 mission suggest that the samples came from a relatively dry mantle source.

Sen Hu
Huicun He
Ziyuan Ouyang
ResearchOpen Access19 Oct 2021
Nature

Volume: 600, P: 49-53
Two-billion-year-old volcanism on the Moon from Chang’e-5 basalts

Basalt samples returned from the Moon by the Chang’e-5 mission are revealed to be two billion years old by radioisotopic dating, providing insight on the volcanic history of the Moon.

Qiu-Li Li
Qin Zhou
Xian-Hua Li
ResearchOpen Access19 Oct 2021
Nature

Volume: 600, P: 54-58

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