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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For decades, scientists have puzzled over why lunar rocks show signs of strong magnetism when the moon itself has no global magnetic field today. New simulations suggest the answer may lie in a ...

NASA’s Apollo missions brought back moon rock samples for scientists to study. We’ve learned a great deal over the ensuing decades, but one enduring mystery remains. Many of those lunar samples show ...

For more than half a billion years, a giant magnetic anomaly buried in Earth’s ancient rocks has puzzled scientists. The strange data once appeared to defy the rules of geomagnetism, hinting that our ...

The rare earth tetraborides, in which magnetic rare earth ions are arranged in a frustrated Shastry-Sutherland lattice, have emerged as a fertile ground for exploring complex magnetic phenomena. The ...

Scientists are asking meteorite hunters to refrain from using magnets to test the authenticity of their finds because this can destroy the specimen's magnetic memory, erasing valuable information ...