New results from China's Chang'e 5 mission suggest that the Moon possessed a magnetic field well into its midlife, much longer than previously documented. In work published Jan. 1 in Science Advances, ...

A famous illustration of Saturn's moon Titan got it all wrong. Never mind -- what we imagine space to be, and what we know it is, can both evoke the sublime.

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 ...

[Photo/Xinhua] Rock samples collected from the moon's far side by China's Chang'e-6 lunar probe have provided groundbreaking insights into the evolution of the lunar body's magnetic field.

New results from China’s Chang’e 5 mission suggest that the Moon possessed a magnetic field well into its midlife, much longer than previously documented. In work published Jan. 1 in Science ...