En route to land on the moon, a spacecraft snapped views of Earth eclipsing the sun. The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on ...

Listen to Story The team analysed oxygen isotopes from 14 samples from the Moon The data also offer insights into Earth's water history The study hints that water could have reached Earth early in its ...

THE moon is just a chunk of the Earth and not mainly part of an ancient planet as previously thought, scientists claim. Experts had believed our satellite was created when hypothetical body Theia ...

Moon formed from Earth's mantle material, study reveals Theia's contribution to moon formation is now questioned Study offers new insights into Earth's early water source ...

This marks a significant step in recognising the growing need to protect the legacy of human exploration beyond Earth. The inclusion of the Moon comes amidst rising concerns about the impact of ...

Moon has been Earth’s celestial companion for over four billion years. However, the formation of this natural satellite was catastrophic. It was long believed that the Moon was born from a ...

A tiny asteroid loitering in a near-Earth orbit for a few months last year may have an intriguing origin on our Moon. Its characteristics led scientists to ask: is it a chip off the old lunar block, ...

the moon orbits us at 238,900 miles, and at its closest point, or nearest neighbor Venus is 24 million miles from Earth. 2022 CE2 will zoom by at a speed of 13.26 km/s, about 29,661 mph ...

Oxygen isotope identity of the Earth and Moon with implications for the formation of the Moon and source of volatiles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2024; 121 (52) DOI: 10.1073 ...

The prevailing theory had been that the moon was the result of a collision between early Earth and the protoplanet Theia. New measurements indicate that the moon formed from material ejected from ...

(Artist’s concept.) In January 2025, NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar is closely tracking asteroid 2024 PT5 during its nearest approach to Earth, a distance still five times farther than the Moon.