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 ...

The impact that carved out the South Pole-Aitken basin on the moon appears to have come from the north, not the south as ...

New research reveals the Moon's colossal South Pole-Aitken basin was formed by an asteroid striking from the north, not the ...

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 ...

The 6%-lit waxing crescent moon will be visible roughly 5 degrees above the horizon as the sun sets on Oct. 23, with Mercury ...

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

In the 1960s, Frank Sinatra's song "Fly Me to the Moon" became closely associated with the Apollo missions. The optimistic ...

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