A discovery of ancient rocks might finally answer one of the biggest questions in science: how did the Moon form? Researchers ...

How did the Moon form? Was it from a collision, as has been the longstanding theory, or could it have been captured by the Earth early in our planet’s formation? This is what a recent study published ...

A physicist, a chemist, and a mathematician walk into a bar. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but in my case, it was the start of an idea that could reshape how scientists think about the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Francis Nimmo, University of California, Santa Cruz (THE CONVERSATION) A physicist, a ...

NEW YORK — A pair of NASA spacecraft are slipping into orbit around the moon this weekend to try to answer persistent questions about Earth’s celestial companion. How did the moon form? Is the lunar ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Illustration of a stage in the formation of the Earth-moon system. The Earth had recently formed ...

The moon's orbit isn't a perfect circle. Instead, it's more stretched out, kind of like an oval, which means its distance from Earth varies by about 30,000 miles (48,000 km). The surface of the moon ...

Did the Moon’s geological activity stop billions of years ago after it formed, or has it been active since then? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address ...

The Moon has long been the Earth's close companion, but researchers have struggled to understand exactly when the moon formed, because tiny crystals in the moon rocks brought home by astronauts ...

Francis Nimmo has previously received NASA funding relevant to the Moon. A physicist, a chemist and a mathematician walk into a bar. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but in my case, it was the ...