Our moon—or la Luna—has inspired humankind for millennia. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. It's largely agreed that the moon was created around 4.5 billion years ago ...

A collision between Earth and a massive Mars-sized protoplanet likely caused the formation of our moon. Now scientists from the Max Planck Institute suggest that doomed planet was likely a rowdy ...

Theories abound to address how our moon was formed. After we brought moon rocks back from the lunar excursions of the 60s, certain facts became clear, like the striking similarity between Earth's ...

The Moon is not, in fact, a giant cosmic wheel of Gouda. In a landmark paper published in Nature, researchers from the French National Center of Scientific Research delivered a hard truth: the Moon is ...