The James Webb Space Telescope has, for the first time, measured the carbon-rich concoction that forms a moon-forming disk of gas and dust around a newly formed planetary body. It is hoped the ...

It's largely agreed that the moon was created around 4.5 billion years ago when a protoplanet collided with early molten ...

NASA has confirmed that Earth has gained a temporary cosmic companion in the form of asteroid 2025 PN7, which will orbit our ...

Webb just spotted a carbon-rich moon factory 625 light-years away, revealing how moons like ours may have first taken shape.

The James Webb Space Telescope measured a potential moon-forming disk encircling an exoplanet, NASA recently announced, inviting researchers to observe and study moon formation as it happens, while ...

Earth and the Moon are forever locked in a gravitational embrace that has played a critical role in determining the fate of both worlds. Although they have grown more distant since their formative ...

The team of astronomers behind the find suggested it could help us better understand planet and moon formation in our solar system and beyond the Milky Way. The team was able to make the first-ever ...

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

For the first time, astronomers have found a disk around a Jupiter-like planet outside of our solar system -- the kind of disk where moons could actively be forming. The disk, known as a ...

Chiron is a centaur approximately 200 km in diameter and takes about 50 years to complete a full orbit around the Sun.

The impact that carved out the South Pole-Aitken basin on the moon appears to have come from the north, not the south as previously thought – and NASA’s upcoming mission could investigate further ...