For centuries, the Moon has inspired mystery and myth. But where did it truly come from? New scientific discoveries are ...

Because the Earth is doing the work of increasing the Moon's momentum, the Earth's rotation slows down in turn, as its momentum goes to the Moon. To put it another way, as the Moon's orbital momentum ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

The researchers analyzed lunar samples that had remained unopened since they were collected by Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972.

Everything we thought we knew about the moon's origins may be wrong, new research suggests. Ever since we landed the first humans on the moon, scientists have thought that our lone lunar companion ...

Learn more about the time when the moon didn’t exist, and then hours later suddenly did. Einstein once asked whether “the moon exists only when I look at it?". It was rhetorical objection to the idea ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical ...

Two primary theories explain planetary moon formation: gravitational capture within a planet's Hill sphere radius and simultaneous formation with the solar system during its accretion disk phase. A ...