New findings from China's Chang'e 6 lunar farside samples offer insights into the moon's volcanic past and mantle evolution.

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 ...

The Blue Ghost spacecraft, named for a species of firefly, took eclipse chasing to new heights. Not only did it see the Earth block the Sun from an unexplored location on the Moon, but the lander fell ...

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the solar system was just getting started, a Mars-size protoplanet named Theia ...

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 ...

(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 ...