Astronomers say a distant, sunlike star shows signs of a catastrophic planet-on-planet crash that may mirror the ancient impact that formed Earth's moon.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This view was taken from above the ringplane and looks toward the unlit side of the rings. Here, the probe gazes upon Titan in the ...

One particularly well-known fact about the moon is that it doesn't have much of a magnetosphere to speak of. There's no blanket to protect it from the solar wind ravaging its surface, blowing away its ...

A US Senate committee has directed NASA to begin work on a moon base "as soon as is practicable." Under legislation advanced ...

Oxygen isotope analysis of lunar soil shows meteorites delivered only a limited amount of water to the Earth–Moon system ...

Scientists studying lunar samples have finally resolved a decades-long debate about the Moon’s ancient magnetic field.

Moon, as seen from the UK. Image by Tim Sandle Moon, as seen from the UK. Image by Tim Sandle Moonquakes are more common than previously thought, a consequence of a shrinking and, at the same time, ...

When NASA’s Artemis II mission embarks on a 10-day journey around the moon, the crew may glimpse features on the lunar surface that no other human has seen with the naked eye. As the astronauts fly by ...

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is one of the solar system’s oddities. Now, researchers have unlocked key insights about this mysterious moon, including how it came to be. The answer may also shed light ...