Compared to Earth, the Moon doesn't have much going on. Where our planet's surface features an impressive mix of windswept ...

It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing planets, including one last giant impact that threw enough rock, gas, and dust into space to form the ...

Forty-nine years ago this Friday, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the Moon. That day, they also became the first people to harvest samples from another ...

However, it may be abundant on the Moon, because the lunar surface is largely unprotected from solar winds, which can deliver helium-3 into its rocks. In fact, mining it from the surface of the ...

Another theory says the Earth may have been vaporised in that giant collision, and the moon formed out of gas and dust that glommed ... of lunar craters. Moon rocks are nearly identical to Earth ...

The space rock created a brief but brilliant flash that was captured from Earth. A Japanese astronomer captured the telltale flash of a meteorite impacting the moon, causing a brief flash on our ...

That changed last week. The Chang’e 5 mission launched in China on November 23rd will deliver moon rocks to earth, and as this is being written it has already entered Lunar orbit and separated ...

A planet-forming disk around a distant star has revealed an abundance of water that may indicate the solar system's water is ...

There's a moon teeming with lava-spewing volcanoes in our solar system, and a NASA spacecraft is getting closer to this ...

BEIJING--A Chinese lunar capsule returned to Earth on Thursday with the first fresh samples of rock and debris from the moon in more than 40 years. The capsule of the Chang’e 5 probe landed in ...

Apollo Global Management Inc and Blackstone Inc have expressed interest in a book of loans held by Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), ...