The Earth's Grand Canyon took millions of years to carve, but the moon's grand canyons took about ten minutes.

Two gargantuan canyons on the moon were carved by a hailstorm of rocks — and that’s good news for future lunar astronauts.

A moon of Earth's own. While 2024 PT5 never officially joined Earth's orbit, the almost-moon still became a topic of interest ...

Do you know how big the moon is? Or how many earths can fit inside the sun? The students at Potter Gray Elementary learned the answers and so much more about the solar system. The Orbit Earth Expo ...

For the third time in a year, a commercial lunar lander backed by NASA is on its way to the moon's surface ... the frigid lunar night as the Earth blocks the sun.

THE moon is just a chunk of the Earth and not mainly part of an ancient planet as previously thought, scientists claim. Experts had believed our satellite was created when hypothetical body Theia ...

2024 PT5 shares a similar motion to Earth as it orbits the Sun, making it a temporary companion of our planet. For several months, it has remained at a distance about nine times farther than the Moon, ...

Oxygen isotope identity of the Earth and Moon with implications for the formation of the Moon and source of volatiles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2024; 121 (52) DOI: 10.1073 ...

The prevailing theory had been that the moon was the result of a collision between early Earth and the protoplanet Theia. New measurements indicate that the moon formed from material ejected from ...

While a solar eclipse involves the moon passing between the sun and the Earth, casting a shadow across our planet, a lunar eclipse involves the Earth passing directly between the moon and the sun.

In a two-for-one moonshot, SpaceX launched a pair of lunar landers Wednesday for U.S. and Japanese companies looking to jumpstart business on Earth’s dusty sidekick. The two landers rocketed ...

Two lunar landers built by private companies in the US and Japan have left Earth aboard a SpaceX rocket as part of a rideshare to the Moon. The Falcon 9 took off from the Kennedy Space Center in ...