Deep beneath the forests and lakes of northern Minnesota, researchers say they have found traces of a substance long treated as a prize of the Moon rather than the American Midwest. The discovery of ...

Boffins will soon be able to investigate the surface of the moon in Scotland after they found almost identical rocks in a coastal village. Researchers from the University of Aberdeen are using the ...

American geologist and astronaut Harrison Hagan Schmitt takes rock samples from the surface of the moon during America's last lunar landing mission of the 20th century, Apollo 17, December 1972.

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 ...

Where did the moon’s magnetism go? Scientists have puzzled over this question for decades, ever since orbiting spacecraft picked up signs of a high magnetic field in lunar surface rocks. The moon ...