When the Artemis program returns humans to the lunar surface, astronauts may want to make sure they’re up to date on their tetanus shots. The Moon is covered in rust. In 2020, data from India’s ...

A new investigation into rust on the Moon implicates Earth as the culprit. Oxygen leaking out of Earth is likely responsible for the transformation of iron to hematite (Fe 2 O 3) at the lunar poles.

Next month, the Moon will slip into Earth’s shadow and glow a deep coppery red, creating a rare spectacle that will dominate ...

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 is rusting due to oxygen particles blown all the way from Earth to the lunar surface, scientists have discovered. The findings, made by a team from Macau University of Science and Technology ...