With a 4% chance of hitting the moon in 2032, an asteroid named YR4’s potential collision course is being monitored by NASA.

Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...

Little is known about the long-destroyed moon-forming planet, Theia. But it may have been born in the inner solar system—just like Earth—a new study suggests ...

They went through the isotope mixtures in Earth and lunar rocks instead of using highly technical models. They dabbled in ...

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon ...

If you know any bit of information about how the moon was created, new research indicates that everyone has believed wrong.

Astrobotic will let its lander burn up in the Earth's atmosphere when it comes back to our planet. The spacecraft's mission to the moon was scuppered shortly after launch due to a fuel leak.

The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the evolutionary history of kissing, how moss spores fare in space, and new clues about the collision that created the moon.

The most widely accepted explanation for how the Moon was formed is the giant-impact theory. It states that a Mars-size ...

Apollo samples provide evidence: Researchers analyzed Moon rocks brought back by the Apollo missions and, for the first time, ...

The Moon is getting 1½ inches (3.8 centimeters) farther away from the Earth every year. Scientists measure the distance to ...