Even though humans have pondered the moon since the first of us looked skyward, there is still much we don't know about it.

Scientists proposed an explanation for the formation of Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck near the lunar south pole, which ...

A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...

India's Chandrayaan-3 mission achieved a historic soft landing on the Moon's South Pole on August 23, 2023. ISRO's study ...

A colossal impact billions of years ago carved out the canyons that rival the most breathtaking features here on Earth in a ...

The incoming object created an impact basin and sent streams of rocks hurtling like missiles, NASA said. Within minutes, two ...

Scientists used to believe that when a massive impact created the Moon, it also delivered a lot of water to Earth. However, this study challenges that idea. Instead, it suggests that Earth got its ...

An undated artistic rendering shows an asteroid or comet striking near the Moon's south pole about 3.8 billion years ago, an ...

Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

Roughly 4.6 billion years ago, the Sun was born from the gas and dust of a nebula that underwent gravitational collapse. The ...