In a first, researchers have discovered fragments of Earth's precursor that contain distinctive chemical fingerprints in ...

For the first time, scientists may have found direct evidence of material from the proto-Earth, a version of our planet that ...

Mystics often attribute this orange color to 'Blood Moon,' or total lunar eclipse. But as it turns out, it is just simple ...

The conventional explanation for the moon's formation is that an enormous rock smashed into the nascent Earth and created it as a result. A new theory challenges the particulars of how events may have ...

Millions of years before blue oceans and wandering continents, the Earth in its early days was a molten, tumultuous planet — ...

For years, scientists believed the “giant impact” that formed the Moon melted and reshaped the entire young Earth, erasing ...

Artemis astronauts may walk across the Moon’s deepest story - rock blasted from a 4.3-billion-year-old impact that still ...

As astronauts prepare for south-polar landings, a new look at the Moon’s biggest crater points to a pivotal moment in lunar ...

Even though humans have pondered the moon since the first of us looked skyward, there is still much we still don’t know about it. One of these unsolved questions is its origin story. We think the moon ...

(CNN) — About 3.8 billion years ago, two massive canyons likely formed on the moon in a span of less than 10 minutes, according to new research. The extraordinary formations, each comparable in size ...