Intuitive Machines' Nova-C lander on the moon in this IM-1 mission animation. Credit: Space.com | animation courtesy: ...

JAXA small lunar landing demonstrator "SLIM ". Watch how it travels to the moon's surface in this animated explainer. Credit: ...

An animation by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines of its 2022 spacecraft landing on the moon has been shared on social media by people who say the video is proof that the landing was faked. They ...

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 ...

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 ...

The James Webb Telescope measured a potential moon-forming disk encircling an exoplanet, NASA recently announced, inviting researchers to observe and study moon formation as it happens, while ...

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 ...

The Moon has long been the Earth's close companion, but researchers have struggled to understand exactly when the moon formed, because tiny crystals in the moon rocks brought home by astronauts ...