The moon may still be geologically active, judging from the way the lunar far side is wrinkling as the moon contracts. At ...

Two canyons that splay out from a vast asteroid crater on the moon may have been quickly formed by chains of impacts that ...

Water, one of the essential ingredients for life on Earth, did not appear on the planet until after the moon-forming event, a new study claims ...

THE moon is just a chunk of the Earth and not mainly part of an ancient planet as previously thought, scientists claim. Experts had believed our satellite was created when hypothetical body Theia ...

If the scientists could very precisely measure the proportions of lutetium and halfnium in moon rocks compared to other ...

Projectiles flying faster than bullets from a blast 130 times bigger than the global nuclear stockpile helped form giant ...

The moon likely formed from material ejected from Earth's mantle, with minimal contribution from the protoplanet Theia, as indicated by the high isotopic similarity of oxygen-17 between Earth and ...

"Whereas Arizona’s Grand Canyon was carved by water over the last 5 to 6 million years and from integrated paleocanyons that ...

New findings indicate that the Moon is still undergoing geological changes, challenging the long-held belief that it is a geologically inactive body. In a study published in The Planetary Science ...

Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study found that oxygen-17 isotopes on the moon closely ...

About the canyons: The two canyons, called Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck, are located on the far side of the moon, so they can only be seen from orbit — not from Earth. Each canyon is over 165 ...

This "kiss and capture" mechanism offers a fresh perspective on planetary formation, particularly about Pluto and its largest moon Charon. Scientists have long believed that Charon formed through ...