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 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. "The majority of the strong magnetic fields ...

The Moon, with its calm and seemingly unchanging surface, holds many secrets, and one of the most puzzling is the magnetism found in certain lunar rocks. Unlike Earth, which is enveloped by a strong ...

This photo shows an example of the 3.7 billion year-old banded iron formation found in the northeastern part of the Isua Supracrustal Belt. Geologists at MIT and Oxford University have uncovered ...

Magnets are pretty common here on Earth, and magnetism in general is a constant thanks to the geomagnetic field. On the moon, however, things are different. The moon does not have a magnetic field, ...