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 ...

Moon rocks brought back by the Apollo missions exhibit surprising magnetic signatures. A recent study suggests these ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two gigantic canyons on the moon — both deeper than the Grand Canyon — were carved in less than 10 minutes by floods of rocks traveling as fast as bullets, a new study finds. Scientists ...