New findings suggest that the Moon's early magnetic field was quite different from what many theories predicted.

Lunar rocks collected by Apollo astronauts more than half a century ago are providing a fresh take on the moon's mysterious ...

Sophisticated analysis of a rock sample taken from the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission revealed new information about the complex cooling and evolutionary history of the Moon. The findings, from ...

NASA has severe penalties for those who dare to deal in astromaterials.

NASA scientists opened an untouched rock and soil sample from the Moon returned to Earth on Apollo 17, marking the first time in more than 40 years a pristine sample of rock and regolith from the ...

After sitting untouched in storage for nearly 50 years, lunar samples collected during the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions will be studied for the first time, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine ...

Moon becomes brighter for experts, with new insights gathered from the Apollo 17 lunar sample. Published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, these insights shed light on the mysterious ...

Scientists at the University of Oxford have finally settled a decades-long mystery about the Moon’s magnetic field — and it ...

Studies so far suggested that a major source of water on Earth may have been meteorites that slammed into our planet in the early days of the solar system. A new NASA study published in the ...

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

The Apollo missions changed how scientists understand the moon. Returning with Artemis could help solve some of the biggest ...