While the moon once had a weak magnetic field generated by a small molten core, the team's research suggests it likely wouldn ...

Twentieth-century explorations answered many questions about our satellite and its place in the solar system. But they also ...

There have been proposed hypotheses as to how the Moon could have developed a core dynamo. For instance, a 2022 analysis suggested that in the first billion years, when the Moon was covered in molten ...

Where did the moon's magnetism go? Scientists have puzzled over this question for decades, ever since orbiting spacecraft ...

Scientists may have solved the mystery of why the moon shows ancient signs of magnetism although it has no magnetic field today. An impact, such as from a large asteroid, could have generated a cloud ...

There should be rocks showing both impact shock and high magnetism located near the lunar South Pole on the far side of the ...

Dark matter is more than five times as abundant as all the visible matter in the universe. So why can't we see any of it?

A massive impact may have sent a shockwave through the moon, jolting rocks just as a magnetic spike peaked and leaving behind ...

Astronomers have calculated that the gas giant Jupiter used to be twice as big as it is now, based on the odd orbits of two ...

Astronomers have discovered that the Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, was once so big that it could have held ...

Divers will return to a southwest Michigan lake to continue searching for the remains of a mom who vanished 47 years ago.