The origin of the Moon has fascinated scientists for decades. The most widely accepted theory suggests that the Moon formed ...

Scientists have long thought that the South Pole-Aitken basin was formed by a shallow-angle impact, but new research suggests ...

A pair of astrophysicists with Aix- Marseille Université, CNRS, and Institut Universitaire de France have developed a new ...

This is the last time the seven planets will appear together in the night sky until 2040. Here's when it's happening – and ...

Roughly 4.6 billion years ago, the Sun was born from the gas and dust of a nebula that underwent gravitational collapse. The ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

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Using energy greater than the global nuclear weapons inventory, an impact event carved two grand canyons into the moon’s ...

Simulations of the solar system’s formation indicate that the Moon likely formed earlier—tens of millions of years earlier—since by 200 million years, much of the primordial material that could have ...

The dark skies during a new moon provide ideal conditions for spotting skywatching targets that would otherwise be outshined by moonlight. The next new moon will occur on Thursday, Feb.