One of the oldest unsolved riddles in planetary science concerns the origin of the moon. Over a century ago, George Darwin ...

SCIENTISTS have discovered an unusual formation on Jupiter’s moon – and NASA says it may hold the secret to extraterrestrial ...

Sagittarius season asks us to zoom out. Every year, we reach the end of harvest season and take stock of what grew, what ...

Scientists have long believed that the Moon was formed by a massive object crashing into the Earth. But what was that thing ...

According to the Hindu lunar calendar, the Amavasya tithi begins at 4:59 am on 19 December 2025 and concludes at 7:12 am on ...

An artistic rendering of a dust and gas disk encircling the young exoplanet, CT Cha b, 625 light-years from Earth. Spectroscopic data from NASA’s JWST suggest the disk contains the raw materials for ...

Multiple impacts on Earth might better explain our moon’s origin than a single giant impact 4.5 billion years ago – and could help solve one of its biggest mysteries. But Earth and the moon are ...

New research suggests Titan instead may hold deep layers of ice and slush more akin to Earth's polar seas instead of a buried ...

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

An eye-catching pattern on the surface of Europa, an ice-covered moon, may have profound implications for our understanding ...

Apollo samples provide evidence: Researchers analyzed Moon rocks brought back by the Apollo missions and, for the first time, used their iron isotope ratios to trace where Theia originally formed.