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

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first detailed look at a carbon-rich disk surrounding the exoplanet CT Cha ...

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

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 US doesn’t currently have much ability to monitor what’s going on in the space around the Moon. An effort by the Air ...

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

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

But much is unknown about the availability of water ice on the moon, or even what data is missing that could help fine-tune ...

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

Dateline: Under a Halloween Moon covers a destructive case from North Dakota. It happened on a Halloween weekend in 2007.