A half-century-old Moon rock, sealed away since the Apollo era, has just forced scientists to rethink what they thought they ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising discovery within lunar rocks collected over five decades ago. A tiny sample of the Moon, preserved since the Apollo 17 mission, has been hiding a secret that may ...

In the summer of 2024, a robotic mission landed for the first time on the far side of the Moon. The Chinese Chang’e-6 lander planted a flag, dug up more than four pounds of rock and soil, and brought ...

A research team has for the first time discovered anomalous meter-sized rocks on the lunar surface that are covered in dust and presumably exhibit unique properties -- such as magnetic anomalies.

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 ...

TOKYO — An unmanned lunar spacecraft has captured and transmitted data analyzing 10 lunar rocks, a greater-than-expected achievement that could help provide clues about the origin of the moon, a Japan ...

The Moon has long been the Earth's close companion, but researchers have struggled to understand exactly when the moon formed, because tiny crystals in the moon rocks brought home by astronauts ...

As aspirations for lunar colonization grow, so does the need to understand the moon's freshwater reservoirs. Researchers are interested in determining if these hidden natural resources could serve as ...