China's Chang’e-6 mission has delivered the first-ever samples from the Moon’s far side, shedding light on one of planetary ...

A series of recent findings from the Chang’e-6 mission have significantly advanced our understanding of the Moon’s far side, ...

Learn how Earth's moon formed, how its orbit affects Earth's tides, why solar and lunar eclipses happen and the history of lunar exploration.

01/11/2023 From The New Science of Moon Formation Season 9 Episode 1 | 15m 32sVideo has Closed Captions| CC Learn more about the time when the moon didn’t exist, and then hours later suddenly did.

The Moon has long been the Earth's close companion, but researchers have struggled to understand exactly when the moon formed, because tiny crystals in the moon rocks brought home by astronauts ...

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

We don’t know the exact details, but the Giant Impact Hypothesis is the most widely accepted explanation for how our moon formed.

Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object slammed into the moon 3.8 billion years ago.

The moon may be older than some scientists thought, according to a new study. It suggests that rock samples from the Apollo missions date back to a melting event, not to the moon's formation.

Collision may have formed the Moon in mere hours, simulations reveal Date: October 4, 2022 Source: NASA/Ames Research Center Summary: Most theories claim the Moon formed out of the debris of a ...

Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object slammed into the moon 3.8 billion years ago.