Unlike Earth, the Moon doesn't have much of a magnetic field – and yet, a strange pile of rocks on the far side seems mysteriously magnetized. A new study suggests that a major cataclysm, over and ...

For centuries, astronomers have observed Transient Lunar Phenomena (TLPs) – strange lights on the Moon. These enigmatic ...

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 ...

Earth's moon is occasionally illuminated by flickers, glows or beams of light. What are these mysterious lights?

For decades, scientists have been trying to understand why some rocks on the moon are strongly magnetized even though the moon has no magnetic field today. Moon rocks brought to Earth during NASA's ...

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 ...

The Moon has long been the Earth's close companion, but researchers have struggled to understand exactly when the moon formed, because tiny crystals in the moon rocks brought home by astronauts ...

UB students huddled in the Hochstetter Hall volcanology lab, passing around a plexiglass disk. Inside was what at first glance appeared to be unremarkable pebbles and dust but was actually some of the ...

The moon may be more than 100 million years older than some scientists previously thought, according to a new study. The research, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, challenges the ...

“There’s a huge difference between the modern elemental makeup of the Earth and Moon and we wanted to know why,” said NASA planetary scientist Justin Simon. “Now, we know that the Moon was very ...

Ancient rocks from Greenland, Canada and Hawaii preserve a rare chemical fingerprint that may come from the Earth before the ...