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We were wrong about how the moon's largest and oldest crater formed — and that's great news for NASA's next lunar landing
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 ...
The moon’s oldest and largest crater didn’t form in the way astronomers thought, according to a detailed analysis of its shape, which would rewrite the moon’s early history. The South Pole-Aitken (SPA ...
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 ...
A new study reveals that the largest lunar crater, South Pole-Aitken basin, was formed by an oblique impact that shaped the ...
Mercury's tight orbit around the sun will see it depart Mars to travel leftward in the direction of the constellation ...
Scientists have shown how the freezing of a ‘slushy’ ocean of magma may be responsible for the composition of the Moon’s crust. The scientists, from the University of Cambridge and the Ecole normale ...
In the 1960s, Frank Sinatra's song "Fly Me to the Moon" became closely associated with the Apollo missions. The optimistic ...
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