The moon is rusting. Earth's moon. It's rusting. Scientists have discovered hematite, a common iron-oxide (rust) mineral, forming at the lunar poles. Rust is a common chemical reaction found on Earth ...

A stream of charged particles that blows from Earth (foreground) to the Moon could account for the rust compounds found in lunar soils. Most of the time, both Earth and the Moon are bathed in a stream ...

Planetary scientists discovered the moon is slowly rusting, and Earth may be responsible. Their research, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, shows that oxygen particles escaping ...