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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Our first moon is probably several billion years old, and was created when something giant collided against the Earth. The ...

Scientists have uncovered a mysterious relic from an area of the moon that has never been explored by humans until now.

As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.

The isotopic ratio of sulfur-33 on the moon differs from that of Earth. Did the moon's sulfur instead come from the impactor that formed it?

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 ...