Researchers at the University of Oxford have found that the Moon’s ancient magnetic field was not steady and long-lived but instead flickered on and off in brief, intense bursts tied to titanium-rich ...

A half-century-old Moon rock, sealed away since the Apollo era, has just forced scientists to rethink what they thought they knew about our nearest neighbor. By slicing into a sample that had been ...

Oxygen isotope analysis of lunar soil shows meteorites delivered only a limited amount of water to the Earth–Moon system ...

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 ...

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 ...