Scientists could be a step closer to solving the mystery of how the surface of the moon got its weathered and cratered appearance, after the discovery of unique minerals in lunar soil samples ...
Scientists have made an incredible discovery: they found a ginormous amount of water in a black hole 12 billion light-years ...
About 4.5 billion years ago, a small planet smashed into the young Earth, flinging molten rock into space. Slowly, the debris coalesced, cooled and solidified, forming our moon. This scenario of ...
Linking analyses of the moon's gravity field with models of its earliest evolution, scientists tell a story of the moon turning itself inside out after it solidified from a primordial magma ocean.
A team of astronomers believes the near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, a space rock between 130 and 328 feet in diameter, was once part of the Moon. More specifically, a research team led by Tsinghua ...
From Greenwich Mean to Eastern Standard, there's more than 30 timezones in use today. But one more may soon be added – and it would be literally out of this world. The US government has ...
This article is part of a special report on the total solar eclipse that will be visible from parts of the U.S., Mexico and Canada on April 8, 2024. Sky watchers got a special treat during the ...
Andrea Mosie greeted me at the doorway to the moon with a wink. “Are you ready?” she asked. I had been warned about the technical procedures that would precede my visit, but I was not prepared for ...
So far, the moon has been explored in-situ by four-wheeled rovers, starting with Russia's Lunokhod 1 that arrived on the lunar surface in 1969 and traversed about 6 miles (10 kilometers) in 10 months.
It turns out the simple question has a complicated answer. So far, lunar missions functioned on the time of their respective home countries. However, early last year the European Space Agency (ESA ...
When it came to finding shelter, our early ancestors simply had to make do. Case in point? In the deserts of Saudi Arabia, some of them apparently sought refuge from the oppressive heat by living in ...