Firefly Aerospace will team up with NASA to explore the lunar surface's Gruithuisen Domes, using sophisticated instruments ...

Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up there.

The Moon is far older than we once believed — but its fiery past has kept its true age hidden. New research reveals that, a ...

Scientists propose Pluto and its moon Charon formed through a "kiss and capture" event 4.5 billion years ago, challenging ...

The moon is Earth’s closest neighbor in space and the only extraterrestrial body humans have visited. Yet scientists are still unsure exactly when a Mars-size meteorite slammed into early Earth ...

A groundbreaking study in Nature has shaken up our understanding of the moon’s formation. This research suggests that the moon was born during Earth’s earliest days, revolutionizing the ...

New models reveal Pluto and Charon may have spent some of their early history locked together in an embrace after a grazing ...

Lunar rocks retrieved by China’s Chang’e-5 mission reveal that the moon’s magnetic field lasted much longer than scientists ...

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The year 2025 promises to be packed with space exploration, including robotic expeditions to the moon, a new observatory and ...

Now, a study in the journal Nature argues for the earlier age, saying that the ancient Moon also went through a period when it got hot and partially remelted, producing new rocks about 4.35 ...