New study provides clearer insight into how the Moon formed and why its materials closely resemble those of Earth.

Today, Earth’s moon is uninhabitable and does not contain a trace of life. It does not have much of an atmosphere, a drop of ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." A widely accepted explanation for how the moon formed is the Giant Impact Hypothesis. Lunar research ...

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Washington, D.C. Using new techniques, scientists have discovered for the first time that tiny beads of volcanic glasses collected from two Apollo missions to the Moon contain water. The researchers ...

So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases the size of the Moon’s orbit. This means that the Moon gets slightly farther ...

To understand the "blood moon", we must first discuss the total lunar eclipse.