The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical ...

New study provides clearer insight into how the Moon formed and why its materials closely resemble those of Earth.

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles within this cloud collided and clumped together, driven by gravity and ...

Researchers detect 7 complex molecules, including acetylene and benzene, marking 1st chemical snapshot of moon-forming ...

The moon's orbit isn't a perfect circle. Instead, it's more stretched out, kind of like an oval, which means its distance from Earth varies by about 30,000 miles (48,000 km). The surface of the moon ...

So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases ...

The small chunk of rock could be telling us that many of the moon’s largest impacts happened over 4.25 billion years ago.

Scientists have discovered that the Moon is rusting due to oxygen particles originating from Earth. These particles travel ...

The Moon is rusting — and it’s Earth’s fault. Scientists have found that oxygen particles blown from Earth to the Moon can ...

When Apollo 17 astronauts collected a small rock from the moon more than 50 years ago, they had no way of knowing it would ...

A physicist, a chemist, and a mathematician walk into a bar. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but in my case, it was the start of an idea that could reshape how scientists think about the ...