The gravitational interaction between the Earth and Moon has led to one hemisphere of the Moon being locked facing away from ...

Rocks from Canada, Greenland, and Hawai'i have less of the already rare isotope potassium-40 than those from the rest of the ...

Researchers have identified what may be the first physical traces of primordial Earth, the early version of our planet that ...

Could Artemis III astronauts collect some lunar samples that shed light on the moon's mysterious past? That's what a team of ...

About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.

Millions of years before blue oceans and wandering continents, the Earth in its early days was a molten, tumultuous planet — ...

The discovery, published in Nature Geoscience, provides unprecedented insight into the chemical building blocks that formed our planet and challenges long-held assumptions about the complete ...

While the Moon’s near side and far side display different surfaces, could their interiors differ, as well? This is what a recent study published in N | Space ...

A colossal northern asteroid impact billions of years ago likely shaped the Moon’s south polar region and explains its uneven ...

When NASA’s Artemis astronauts land near the moon’s south pole, they may be stepping into a region that holds vital clues to ...

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the US space agency NASA have made an unexpected discovery ...

When Earth is opposite Mars from the sun, it will appear full because you’re looking directly on the daylit side. But mitigating this is its far greater distance, plus the fact that Earth appears much ...