A rare rock fragment has been identified in lunar soil samples collected by China's Chang'e-6 mission. Researchers discovered that this fragment formed from an impact by a carbon-rich asteroid. This ...

It takes roughly 15,000 years of harsh, unshielded exposure to the sun for raw lunar soil to trap enough volatile gases to make off-world mining worthwhile. Interlune just cloned that entire millennia ...

For decades, a debate has raged about whether the moon ever had a strong magnetic field, or if it was always weak. Now, a new analysis of Apollo-era moon rocks suggests the moon's magnetic field might ...

Moon rocks from a corner of the lunar surface that has never before yielded a sample in a laboratory tell a different story than the rocks Apollo astronauts brought home — and that story is one ...