It's largely agreed that the moon was created around 4.5 billion years ago when a protoplanet collided with early molten ...

In contrast, the recent Brown study utilizes “micro-analytical techniques,” focusing on individual sulfide grains, Dottin ...

The Moon likely formed from a giant impact with a sister planet, influencing Earth’s seasons and habitability.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first detailed look at a carbon-rich disk surrounding the exoplanet CT Cha ...

Webb just spotted a carbon-rich moon factory 625 light-years away, revealing how moons like ours may have first taken shape.

Scientists have studied our solar system, which is home to eight major planets and more than 400 known moons orbiting six of them, to understand the new phase of the moon formation observed around ...

Mars has two moons, but they're not quite like Earth's moon. That's raised a lot of questions about where they're from, ...

The universe has quasi-moons, mini-moons, and moonlets, but no official definition of what counts as a moon.

A laser-based ice drill can bore deep, narrow channels into ice while keeping both mass and energy requirements lower than ...

As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has measured for the first time the chemical composition and physical characteristics ...

But much is unknown about the availability of water ice on the moon, or even what data is missing that could help fine-tune ...