We can thank the Moon for predictable weather, ocean currents and the circulation of important nutrients. The Moon also helps ...

‘Depart immediately’: State Department warns Americans as al Qaeda threatens to overrun African nation Watch a camera capture ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

"Fiddler on the Moon: Judaism in Space" investigates how the religion would adapt to spaceflight and environments where ...

Apollo samples provide evidence: Researchers analyzed Moon rocks brought back by the Apollo missions and, for the first time, ...

In March, NASA researchers employed a new camera system to capture data imagery of the interaction between Firefly Aerospace ...

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of Earth’s mantle and ejecting a huge debris disk that later formed the moon.

An artist's impression of the collision between the early Earth and Theia, which may have formed the moon MPS / Mark A. Garlick Around 4.5 billion years ago, a planet called Theia is thought to have ...

The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's ...

Earth and the planetary object that gave rise to the Moon were likely born in the same region of the solar system. Reading time 3 minutes Around 100 million years after the formation of the solar ...

NASA's moon orbiter has found another lunar dent. The headline says it all: The list of our moon's craters just got a little longer. On Nov. 13, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) team — ...

Astronomers recently detected a stray quasi-moon in our planet’s orbit, but it's hardly the first stowaway to hang out around Earth. Unlike the Earth's moon, quasi-moons are not gravitationally bound ...