The magnetic Moon One of the Moon's ongoing mysteries is whether it once possessed a magnetic field, and if so, how long it was present. Analysis of both Apollo and Russian Luna rock samples have ...

The Moon used to have a magnetic field, powered similarly to how the geodynamo powers the magnetism of Earth. Unlike our planet though, the Moon became solid and the magnetic field disappeared.

By studying the fastest jet ever seen erupting from an infant star, astronomers have discovered that the mechanism that ...

The shared magnetic field situation, with Earth and Moon's magnetospheres joined, could have persisted from 4.1 to 3.5 billion years ago, according to the NASA-led study published in the journal ...

A new study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been able to determine that not only did the Moon have its own magnetic field, but it was twice as strong as the Earth's.

Firefly Aerospace's soon-to-launch Blue Ghost moon lander will help NASA better ... when the solar wind smashes into Earth's magnetic field at the magnetopause, or the outer boundary of the ...