Something unusual appears to be happening on the Moon, and Earth may be playing a part. Researchers have reportedly detected haematite, a form of iron oxide commonly known as rust, on the Moon’s ...

Tiny iron oxide grains found in lunar soil samples brought by the Chinese Chang’e-6 mission upend what was known about the Moon’s surface and magnetic properties, scientists revealed in a new study.

For more than half a century, scientists pictured the Moon as an almost fully reduced world where iron stayed locked in low-oxygen states. That idea came from Apollo samples, which showed that solar ...