Pegasi b Fellow Sarah Steele will spend three years at UC Santa Cruz working with Earth and planetary scientists to advance ...

The moon is Earth's only natural satellite, a rocky celestial body that orbits our planet at an average distance of about 384 ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical properties of a potential moon-forming disk encircling a large exoplanet. The carbon ...

A new study of Apollo lunar rocks suggests that the moon is older than anyone believed. The moon, researchers now say, likely formed about 50 million years after the solar system did, which is much ...

A subtle chemical trace locked inside ancient lunar samples is reshaping how scientists understand the Moon’s earliest history, pointing to the unexpected presence of oxygen during its formation.

To our best of our understanding, the Moon formed from Earth following a colossal impact. A Mars-sized world we nicknamed Theia slammed and merged with the primordial Earth, throwing material into ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Scientists continue to explore the deep story of how Earth and the moon formed. One idea has gained attention because it pushes us to imagine the planet in its earliest and wildest ...