Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...

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 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 ...

The Moon is no stranger to being struck by huge lumps of space rock. In fact, new research has shown that, nearly four ...

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

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 ...

That means NASA's targeted exploration zone around the pole mostly on the moon's near side won't be buried under debris, keeping older rocks from 4 billion plus years ago exposed for collection by ...

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

Now, scientists have made new measurements on moon rocks from the Apollo missions ... came from other places around the solar system, like meteorites, they could calculate backward to see when ...