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

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

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

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 ...

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, ...

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

Scientist have concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as previously thought, an insight that bears directly on the question of when life originated on the planet. The finding ...

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 ...