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 ...

The rocks retrieved by the Apollo missions have puzzled scientists for 50 years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists may ...

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 ...

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, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. One of the abiding mysteries of our moon is why it apparently once had a magnetic field. Now two ...

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 ...

The northern lights, or aurora borealis, are a stunning sight and also an indication of Earth’s magnetic field at work. The sky over Bifrost, western Iceland, glows with the lights. Earth’s magnetic ...

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 ...

USGS and NASA have recently teamed up to create one of the most complete databases of magnetic properties of Earth’s rocks ever assembled. Satellite data of Earth's magnetic field combined with ...

Magnetic nanovortices in magnetite minerals are reliable witnesses of the Earth's history, as revealed by the first high-resolution studies of these structures undertaken by scientists from Germany ...

A year ago, NASA’s InSight mission began its scientific quest to look deep beneath the Martian surface. In its first year, it has suffered some setbacks but also made some incredible discoveries.

The hard, magnetic teeth of a leathery red-brown mollusk nicknamed “the wandering meatloaf” possess a rare mineral previously seen only in rocks. The mineral may help the mollusk — the giant Pacific ...