The study suggests that the existing model for the formation of Earth’s moon doesn’t perfectly apply to Pluto and Charon. Pluto and Charon are smaller and colder. These are composed of rock ...

How the Moon formed may have just fallen back into the ... That's not to say that an impact couldn't have been involved; one model suggests that an impact pulverized the whole kit and kaboodle ...

Now, scientists have come up with two new models that explain how an impact could have resulted in a moon formed from Earth material. In one model, Robin Canup, an astrophysicist at the Southwest ...

Ice may be present a few centimeters below the moon's surface in more areas of the lunar polar regions than was previously ...

According to data from the Chandrayaan-3 mission, ice could be more widespread below the Moon 's surface than we thought. The ...

The presence of accessible ice could serve as a vital resource for long-term exploration and potential settlement.

(CNN) — About 3.8 billion years ago, two massive canyons likely formed on the moon in a span of less than 10 minutes, according to new research. The extraordinary formations, each comparable in ...