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 ...

Crystals hidden in Australia’s oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests Earth’s continents didn’t begin growing until hundreds of millions of years ...

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 ...

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 ...