The moon is 40 million years older than thought, ancient crystal collected by Apollo astronauts suggests

The new atom-by-atom analysis of a 4.46 billion-year-old lunar crystal pushes back the timeline for when the molten moon solidified by 40 million years, according to the study published in the journal Geochemical Perspectives Letters.

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