Crystals hidden in Australia’s oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests ...

Unlike Earth, the Moon doesn't have much of a magnetic field – and yet, a strange pile of rocks on the far side seems mysteriously magnetized. A new study suggests that a major cataclysm, over and ...

For decades, scientists have been trying to understand why some rocks on the moon are strongly magnetized even though the moon has no magnetic field today. "The majority of the strong magnetic fields ...

When moon rocks are more valuable than diamonds, a scientist do whatever it takes when the opportunity arises to get their hands on some. The China National Space Administration is lending out lunar ...

Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it…really fast. Today’s Denver Post has a fascinating — if redundant — Associated Press story about a Houston lawyer who’s tracking down missing moon ...

A new decoration on display in Joe Biden’s Oval Office is, quite literally, out of this world. NASA has loaned out a 3.9-billion-year-old moon rock that space explorers chipped from a lunar boulder ...

Back in early December 2021, China's Yutu 2 rover made headlines when it spied what looked like a curious cube-shaped object on the moon's surface. Of course, speculations ran rampant. And it didn't ...

April 25 (UPI) --China is allowing six nations, including the United States, to examine moon rocks on loan from the 2020 Chinese Chang'e-5 lunar mission. China National Space Administration's Shan ...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China's national space agency announced on Thursday it would let scientists from the U.S. and allied countries analyse rocks it retrieved from the moon, Beijing's latest move to ...

Some lunar rocks have left scientists puzzled for decades. Despite the Moon having no global magnetic field today, samples collected during NASA’s Apollo missions and data from orbiting spacecraft ...

The samples come from just a few pinpoints. It's not yet realistic to generalize much. I am reminded of an old story about three blind men who are brought to an elephant. One gets hold of the trunk, ...