New research from scientists with the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and published in the journal Science found that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Could the Moon be hiding more ice than we thought? New data from India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission suggests just that.

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