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

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

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 ...

The Chang'e 6 robotic mission, the world's first attempt to bring samples from the far side of the moon, was launched in May ...

BEIJING: Chinese scientists have identified micrometer-sized crystals of hematite and maghemite in lunar soil for the first time, using samples brought back by the Chang'e 6 mission from the moon's ...

The Chang'e 6 robotic mission — the world's first attempt to obtain samples from the moon's far side — was launched in May 2024 from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province. The mission ...

A flash of light hits a simple iron crystal. In the space of a trillionth of a second, its magnetic behavior shifts, as if the solid briefly becomes something else.

The immediate practical impact is limited. There's no swath of lunar rust waiting to be mined or used, but for planetary ...