For decades, scientists have held to the idea that the Moon was formed by a single, massive impact between Earth and a ...

TOKYO — An unmanned lunar spacecraft has captured and transmitted data analyzing 10 lunar rocks, a greater-than-expected achievement that could help provide clues about the origin of the moon, a Japan ...

How did the Moon form? Was it from a collision, as has been the longstanding theory, or could it have been captured by the Earth early in our planet’s formation? This is what a recent study published ...

Our Moon has long been hypothesized to have formed from a planet-sized object colliding with the Earth. But, what happened after and how can its unique geologic exterior and interior be explained?

Conventionally, the moon is thought to have formed during one big impact, but a three-impact model might make more sense ...

Blue Origin showed off a device that it claims can store energy from hot Moon dust inside a battery. We have questions.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Angled view of the Giordano Bruno, Lunar crater, 2016. The ...

Blue Origin's famed New Shepard spacecraft successfully simulated the moon's low gravity on board its capsule during a brief flight Tuesday morning over West Texas. Video of the uncrewed launch, which ...

Billionaire Jeff Bezos and his Blue Moon lunar lander are competing with Elon Musk's Starship to be the first to land on the Moon (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) ...