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

New research suggests that the interior of the Moon’s far side may be colder than the side constantly facing Earth, adding ...

Among them is Professor Yang Li, a geoscientist at Beijing’s Peking University and an honorary professor at the University College London. His team have discovered that the inside of the mysterious ...

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 ...

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 ...

The interior of the mysterious far side of the moon may be colder than the side constantly facing Earth, suggests a new ...

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.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Illustration of a stage in the formation of the Earth-moon system. The Earth had recently formed ...

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 ...

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

We typically think of the Moon as an isolated rock in space, a quarter million miles from here. It’s a barren place, once described by Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin as “magnificent desolation.” ...