While the moon once had a weak magnetic field generated by a small molten core, the team's research suggests it likely wouldn ...

Some lunar rocks have left scientists puzzled for decades. Despite the Moon having no global magnetic field today, samples ...

HOUSTON — The first person to set foot on the moon had one last task before he came home. Neil Armstrong needed to pick up rocks — as many as he could carry, as interesting as he could find.

A space rock with a peculiar orbit may be a floating piece of the moon. Scientists had thought moon rocks weren't able to stay in orbit after a meteorite blast. The new discovery could help better ...

Providing further evidence that anything can be bought, moon rock pebbles have sold at auction for $855,000—the only fragments collected from the surface of the moon to have been legally purchased.

With that in mind, it is not surprising that one of the most common gifts given by the United States during the 1970’s was rocks or dirt from the moon that was attained during one of the missions.

because tiny crystals in the moon rocks brought home by astronauts suggested two different ages. Now, a study in the journal Nature argues for the earlier age, saying that the ancient Moon also ...

A Chinese spacecraft lifted off from the moon Thursday night with a load of lunar rocks, the first stage of its return to Earth, the government space agency reported. Chang'e 5, the third Chinese ...

TOKYO — An unmanned lunar spacecraft has captured and transmitted data analyzing 10 lunar rocks, a greater-than-expected achievement that could help provide clues about the origin of the moon ...

Lava oozed across the moon’s surface just 2 billion years ago, bits of lunar rocks retrieved by China’s Chang’e-5 mission reveal. A chemical analysis of the volcanic rocks confirms that the ...

Researchers have found water in the samples of moon dust and rocks brought back from China’s Chang’e 5 mission, but not as much as they expected. Chang’e 5 landed on the moon on 1 December ...