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 ...

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 ...

December is coming to an end with a "black moon" on Monday night, Dec. 30, but those hoping to see the phenomenon will be out of luck. That's because a black moon is the term for the second new ...

The operatic colour and feeling that alarmed 18th-century clerics about a work premiered in a Dublin “music hall” in 1742 turned out to be the superpower that rooted the work in otherwise secular ...

A night view of Mount Erek as the "Cold Moon" appears in the sky in Van, Turkiye on December 07, ... [+] 2022. (Photo by Ozkan Bilgin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) The twelfth and final full mo ...

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 billion ...