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, ...

Scientists have created perhaps the most detailed view of the rust formation process yet, according to a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Rust is the result ...

A new study published in Science Advances by lead author, Shuai Li, found that hematite – a form of rust – was discovered on the Moon. Rust is made up of iron, oxygen, and water – the latter two ...

The world's primary economic source of iron ore, iron formations, are ancient sedimentary rocks that appear as solid as rocks can be. How did they get to be like that? According to researchers, it has ...