Apollo rocks reveal the Moon had brief bursts of super-strong magnetism

by | Feb 26, 2026 | Health

Scientists at the University of Oxford have finally settled a decades-long mystery about the Moon’s magnetic field — and it turns out both sides were right. By reanalyzing Apollo mission rocks, they discovered that the Moon did occasionally generate an incredibly powerful magnetic field, even stronger than Earth’s — but only for fleeting bursts lasting thousands of years or less. Most of the time, the Moon’s magnetic field was weak.

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Written by Albert Pham, News Curator and Blogger

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