The moon is getting rusty. Scientists had the same reaction you probably did when they reached this conclusion. It shouldn't be possible -- after all, there's no oxygen on the moon, one of the two ...

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 ...

I grew up with the idea that the Moon was a dry, airless rock where metal simply sat unchanged for billions of years. The discovery of actual iron rust in lunar soil has blown a hole in that picture, ...

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 ...