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

In contrast, the recent Brown study utilizes “micro-analytical techniques,” focusing on individual sulfide grains, Dottin ...

The Moon likely formed from a giant impact with a sister planet, influencing Earth’s seasons and habitability.

The gravitational interaction between the Earth and Moon has led to one hemisphere of the Moon being locked facing away from ...

The formation of the Moon may have come harder on the heels of Earth's birth than we thought. According to a new analysis by researchers from the US, France, and Germany, Earth's constant companion ...

Scientists have studied our solar system, which is home to eight major planets and more than 400 known moons orbiting six of them, to understand the new phase of the moon formation observed around ...

The universe has quasi-moons, mini-moons, and moonlets, but no official definition of what counts as a moon.

We may have been wrong about how the Moon's largest crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, formed roughly 4.3 billion years ago ...

A new study reveals that the largest lunar crater, South Pole-Aitken basin, was formed by an oblique impact that shaped the ...

Eons ago, in the frigid depths of our solar system, a dramatic collision occurred between two icy worlds. Instead of a catastrophic smash-up, the two bodies "kissed," merging temporarily like a ...

Fragments of a rare type of meteorite have been found in the sample of material brought back from the lunar far side by China ...