A new study has revealed that our understanding of the South Pole-Aitken basin was quite literally back-to-front, meaning ...

Many of the most interesting bodies in our Solar System aren’t planets, but the moons that orbit them. They have active volcanoes, hydrocarbon oceans, geysers, and moon-wide oceans buried under icy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's impression of a moon-forming circumplanetary disk around CT Cha b, and the carbon ...

A half century after NASA's Apollo 17 lunar module lifted off the moon's northeastern near side quadrant, planetary scientists still don't completely understand when or how our moon first formed. They ...

How did the Moon form? Was it from a collision, as has been the longstanding theory, or could it have been captured by the Earth early in our planet’s formation? This is what a recent study published ...

A SpaceX rocket's upper stage, which weighs about four tonnes, is believed to have unintentionally crashed into the Moon at ...

The James Webb Space Telescope measured a potential moon-forming disk encircling an exoplanet, NASA recently announced, inviting researchers to observe and study moon formation as it happens, while ...

A physicist, a chemist and a mathematician walk into a bar. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but in my case, it was the start of an idea that could reshape how scientists think about the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The moon's orbit isn't a perfect circle. Instead, it's more stretched out, kind of like an oval, which means its distance from ...