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.
Experts from English Heritage are investigating a new theory regarding a potential design influence for Stonehenge: the Moon. A major lunar standstill occurs roughly every 19 years and the next ...
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 ...
Stonehenge is famous for its alignment with the sun, which is why visitors flock to the ancient site at the start of summer. But 5,000 years ago, the ancient Wiltshire monument may also have ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...