The magnetic Moon One of the Moon's ongoing mysteries is whether it once possessed a magnetic field, and if so, how long it was present. Analysis of both Apollo and Russian Luna rock samples have ...

Benjamin Weiss at MIT has published a Focus piece in the same journal issue outlining the history of research surrounding the moon's magnetic field and the work by the team on this new effort. In ...

BEIJING -- A new analysis of samples collected by China's Chang'e 5 mission has revealed that the moon possessed a weak yet still running dynamo magnetic field approximately 2 billion years ago.

Chinese scientists discovered that the moon's magnetic field lasted much longer than expected, persisting into its midlife. By studying tiny rocks brought back by the Chang’e-5 mission, they found the ...

A new study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been able to determine that not only did the Moon have its own magnetic field, but it was twice as strong as the Earth's.

Magnetic fields are generated by the motion of magnetic ... not unlike that seen on Saturn's moon Titan today. That haze would deflect sunlight, making it even harder to get a warm planet where ...

Chinese scientists have found direct evidence that the moon’s magnetic field persisted well into its midlife, long after it was thought to have disappeared. Researchers analysing tiny rocks ...

The shared magnetic field situation, with Earth and Moon's magnetospheres joined, could have persisted from 4.1 to 3.5 billion years ago, according to the NASA-led study published in the journal ...