Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

So how did our planet end up with such a special moon? The answer is that, surprisingly enough, the moon is a piece of our ...

Explaining this, the paper proposes that the gigantic impact which formed the roughly 1,600 mile (2,500 kilometers) wide SPA basin around 4.2 ... impact that formed Earth's moon was likely a ...

A startup company wants to establish mining operations on the moon to extract a rare isotope needed for future quantum ...

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

Blue Ghost just sent back amazing photos of last night's "Blood Moon" total lunar eclipse from its perch in Mare Crisium, or ...

Chinese scientists, using lunar soil samples brought back by Chang'e-6, have determined that the Moon's oldest and largest impact crater, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin, was formed 4.25 billion ...

But HERA will not reach the asteroid — which is 11 million kilometers from Earth ... snapping around 600 pictures, including rare ones of Deimos. The lumpy, 12.5-kilometer-wide moon is the ...

A new study by Rice University researchers Sho Shibata and Andre Izidoro presents a compelling new model for the formation of ...

New findings from China's Chang'e 6 lunar farside samples offer insights into the moon's volcanic past and mantle evolution.