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For decades, planetary scientists have debated a fundamental question about the moon's early history: Did it once generate a powerful or a weak magnetic field? A new study suggests both options are ...

Lunar dust collected by Apollo 17 astronauts in the 1970s has revealed that the moon is 40 million years older than previously believed. After landing on the moon on December 11, 1972, NASA astronauts ...

A new study may have solved a long-standing mystery about the Moon's magnetism: Why do lunar rocks brought back by the Apollo missions show evidence of an intense magnetic field sometimes rivaling or ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) As a result, the Moon preserves a record of the geological conditions that helped ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark (Reuters) - For years, Arkansas historians have searched for a valuable lunar rock from the Apollo 17 mission, one of the moon rocks NASA presented to each state in the 1970s. While ...