Lunar rocks brought back by China’s Chang’e-6 mission contain the first clear physical evidence of hematite and maghemite ...

A new computer simulation shows the swift formation of the moon after a Mars-sized body struck the early Earth 4.5 billion years ago. The impact led to two blobs of material, the larger of which ...

Scientists have studied our solar system, which is home to eight major planets and more than 400 known moons orbiting six of them, to understand the new phase of the moon formation observed around a ...

A Chinese research team has achieved a major breakthrough in lunar science by analyzing samples returned by China’s Chang’e-6 ...

A joint research team from the Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGCAS) and Shandong University ...

Planetologists from Münster explain how the Earth became a habitable planet / Publication in "Nature Astronomy" The Earth is unique in our solar system: It is the only terrestrial planet with a large ...

Our Solar System is thought to have formed 4,567 billion years ago, followed by the Moon about 100 million years later. Numerous “impactors” would have excavated more Earth material than a single one, ...

(MENAFN) NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled the first detailed chemical profile of a potential moon-forming disc surrounding a giant exoplanet, a breakthrough discovery that could offer ...

The study also compared the results with measurements of lunar anorthosites, which are rare rocks on Earth but very common on ...

New study led by Thomas R. Watters of the Smithsonian Institution reveals that the Moon has been gradually shrinking over the past few hundred million years. Data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ...

Contrary to long-held assumptions, experts believe the Moon has been slowly moving away from us for millions of years.