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 ...

Researchers studying an ancient meteorite strike in India have discovered that intense shockwaves from planetary collisions ...

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According to Nichols and his team, such strong magnetic field events were rare and lasted only a few thousand years.

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 ...

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 ...

Titanium-rich Moon rocks recorded stronger ancient magnetism. Moon's magnetic field was episodic, not long-lasting like Earth's. Apollo rock anomalies solved, new questions arise. Did our AI summary ...

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 ...