Where did the moon’s magnetism go? Scientists have puzzled over this question for decades, ever since orbiting spacecraft picked up signs of a high magnetic field in lunar surface rocks. The moon ...

For decades, scientists have puzzled over why lunar rocks show signs of strong magnetism when the moon itself has no global magnetic field today. New simulations suggest the answer may lie in a ...

For decades, scientists have puzzled over a curious phenomenon: the Moon’s surface rocks show strong signs of magnetism, despite the fact that the Moon doesn’t have a global magnetic field today. Now, ...

At a Thursday lecture event, Benjamin Weiss, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spoke about his recent research on the lunar dynamo, which ...