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 ...

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 ...

Now, scientists from the University of Oxford offer a resolution to the debate, reporting the moon could have experienced bursts of extremely strong magnetism long ago, but that these episodes would ...

Apollo moon rocks show the Moon had short bursts of strong magnetism, not a long lasting magnetic field, changing how we ...

Heads of state commonly give gifts to other countries as gestures of good will. These gifts normally represent something important to the country giving them. With that in mind, it is not surprising ...

UB students huddled in the Hochstetter Hall volcanology lab, passing around a plexiglass disk. Inside was what at first glance appeared to be unremarkable pebbles and dust but was actually some of the ...

Scientists at the University of Oxford have finally settled a decades-long mystery about the Moon’s magnetic field — and it turns out both sides were right. By reanalyzing Apollo mission rocks, they ...

HOUSTON — In the lab, the moon rocks look nondescript — dark gray basalt, a whitish mineral called anorthosite and mixtures of the two with crystals thrown in. Yet nearly 40 years after the Apollo ...

The year's first supermoon and meteor shower will sync up in January skies, but the light from one may dim the other. An analysis of feldspar crystals within the oldest magmatic rocks in Australia has ...