China’s Chang’e-6 mission has made lunar history by retrieving the first-ever samples from the Moon’s mysterious farside, ...

Scientists found a rock in Africa that originally came from the Moon after being knocked off by an asteroid impact and ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

How did Earth, alone among the Solar System's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

What processes during the formation of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially led to it having cryovolcanism, and even an ...

See the moon, Mars and Regulus together in the western sky after sunset on Saturday, followed by a close conjunction between the moon and Mars on Sunday.

For decades, scientists have debated what’s beneath the Moon’s dusty surface. Now, new research has delivered some of the clearest evidence yet of what’s inside … The post We finally ...

New research may have finally figured out what is inside the Moon, and it has scientists excited to dig deeper.

Cooling of this magma would be expected to result in a nearly homogeneous solid moon, covered with the same crust everywhere. This is not always the case. The hemisphere always facing us, called the ...

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite, orbiting our planet, distinct from artificial satellites launched into space. The prevailing theory posits that the Moon formed approximately 4.5 ...

For over four billion years, the Moon has been orbiting Earth — but where did it come from? The Moon has been a constant companion to Earth for over four billion years. But how did it get here in the ...