Recent research has shed light on the role of the Moon’s largest impact crater in explaining the stark visual and geological ...

A new study has revealed that our understanding of the South Pole-Aitken basin was quite literally back-to-front, meaning ...

The gravitational interaction between the Earth and Moon has led to one hemisphere of the Moon being locked facing away from ...

Billions of years ago, so the theory goes, something around the size of Mars smacked into Earth, spewing a whole bunch of dirt into space that eventually coalesced to form the Moon. This is called the ...

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

The Moon's formation may not just have smashed Earth -- it may have stretched our planet into a potato for millions of years afterwards. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in ...

A crucial difference in the “fingerprints” of Earth and the moon confirms an explosive, interconnected past Within the first 150 million years after our solar system formed, a giant body roughly the ...

The Moon is thought to have formed from the debris of a small planet that collided with the Earth. Since the composition of other planets in the solar system differs from that of the Earth, it was ...

The conventional explanation for the moon's formation is that an enormous rock smashed into the nascent Earth and created it as a result. A new theory challenges the particulars of how events may have ...

In the 1960s, Frank Sinatra's song "Fly Me to the Moon" became closely associated with the Apollo missions. The optimistic ...