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 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 ...

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

The beaver supermoon will peak over Lexington at 8:19 a.m. Eastern Standard Time Wednesday, Nov. 5, according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac. Because the moon will be below the horizon at that time, you ...

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In the 1960s, Frank Sinatra's song "Fly Me to the Moon" became closely associated with the Apollo missions. The optimistic ...

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

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 ...

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 ...