Tiny iron oxide grains found in lunar soil samples brought by the Chinese Chang’e-6 mission upend what was known about the Moon’s surface and magnetic properties, scientists revealed in a new study.

For more than half a century, scientists pictured the Moon as an almost fully reduced world where iron stayed locked in low-oxygen states. That idea came from Apollo samples, which showed that solar ...

The Moon has no real atmosphere, but Earth has, in a sense, been generously trying to share its own for billions of years. A ...

A new study of Chang’e-6 soil samples reveals micrometer-scale hematite formed in ancient lunar impact plumes, shifting long-held views of Moon chemistry.