For more than half a century, scientists pictured the Moon as an almost fully reduced world where iron stayed locked in ...

This study, based on samples for the first time, shows that highly oxidized minerals like hematite can exist on the Moon.

A joint research team from the Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGCAS) and Shandong University ...

A Chinese research team has achieved a major breakthrough in lunar science by analyzing samples returned by China’s Chang’e-6 ...

Chemical reactions on one side of a hematite crystal can send electrons through the bulk of the mineral to another side, new research shows. The activity, which occurs only under certain chemical ...

Tiny crystals of iron oxide in ancient Australian rocks offer evidence that the Earth’s atmosphere held significant amounts of oxygen far earlier than previously thought, a new study suggests. Large ...