It's largely agreed that the moon was created around 4.5 billion years ago when a protoplanet collided with early molten ...

The Moon likely formed from a giant impact with a sister planet, influencing Earth’s seasons and habitability.

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 ...

Webb just spotted a carbon-rich moon factory 625 light-years away, revealing how moons like ours may have first taken shape.

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 ...

Chang’e-6 made history by becoming the first to return samples from the Moon’s far side. It landed in the Apollo Basin within the South Pole–Aitken region and brought about 2kg of lunar material back ...

As astronauts prepare for south-polar landings, a new look at the Moon’s biggest crater points to a pivotal moment in lunar ...

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 new study reveals that the largest lunar crater, South Pole-Aitken basin, was formed by an oblique impact that shaped the ...

Lunar dust collected by Apollo 17 astronauts in the 1970s has revealed that the moon is 40 million years older than previously believed. After landing on the moon on December 11, 1972, NASA astronauts ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured an extraordinary and unprecedented sight: a moon-forming disk ...