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 ...

A team of geologists at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, the Institute of Space Sciences and the Shandong ...

Earth is the only rocky planet in the solar system with a significant moon. And the moon really is significant: It's roughly 1.2% the mass of Earth. That may not be big in an absolute sense ...

New research from scientists with the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and published in the journal Science found that sample analysis backs up an established model of the moon as a global ...

Experts analyzed satellite imagery of planetary surface cracks and compared them with Earth's geologic features, searching ...

The Blue Ghost spacecraft, named for a species of firefly, took eclipse chasing to new heights. Not only did it see the Earth ...

Blue Ghost completed 14 days of surface operations, deploying its various payloads and transmitting more than 119 gigabytes ...

Earth’s shadow will block most of the light that illuminates the lunar surface, creating what is known as a blood moon. By Katrina Miller March 14: This event has concluded and you can see ...

A blood moon lunar eclipse happens when Earth lines up between the sun and ... wildflowers (native and not). This is a good model for homeowners: that lawns can be lawns without herbicides.” ...

March's full "Blood Worm Moon," a phenomenon that makes the moon appear red during a total lunar eclipse, is visible this week for Americans and others in Earth's Western Hemisphere. The full moon ...

Moon exploration is undergoing a potentially transformative moment. Over the course of six weeks, three different lunar landers began a rocket-fueled space journey to learn more about Earth’s nearest ...