"During the early solar system's game of cosmic billiards, Earth was struck by a neighbor,” said Dauphas. “It was a lucky shot. Without the moon's steadying influence on our planet's tilt, the climate ...

It’s a general rule in science that the more you know about some aspect of the natural world, the better you understand it. But rules are sometimes broken, and the question of how Earth got its Moon ...

As the Earth flies through space in its celestial dance around the sun, it's accompanied by its perpetual partner, the moon. For as long as we've had oceans, the moon has been tugging on their waters, ...

The Moon has always held a certain mystery, from influencing tides to inspiring mythology, poetry and scientific inquiry. For decades, astronomers have attempted to answer the same fundamental ...