On Jan. 4, Saturn briefly hid behind the crescent moon, escaping the view of skywatchers in Europe, Africa, western Russia ...
NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services, or CLPS, initiative aims to deliver science and technology payloads to the Moon using commercial landers. CLPS is what brought Intuitive Machines ...
Early risers may want to see a waning crescent moon close to Spica, the brightest star in the constellation Virgo. Look southeast an hour before sunrise, and while you're observing, have a look ...
But Earth wasn't the only target; the moon is regularly bombarded with such meteors, and Daichi Fujii, the curator of the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan, has captured some of the most recent ...
The formation of the Moon may have come harder on the heels of Earth's birth than we thought. According to a new analysis by researchers from the US, France, and Germany, Earth's constant companion ...
The moon may be much older than previously thought, according to a new study. Planetary scientists believe the moon's surface may have "remelted" around 4.35 billion years ago, masking much older ...
Francis Nimmo has previously received NASA funding relevant to the Moon. A physicist, a chemist and a mathematician walk into a bar. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but in my case ...
The Moon has long been the Earth's close companion, but researchers have struggled to understand exactly when the moon formed, because tiny crystals in the moon rocks brought home by astronauts ...
Crescent rolls are like tortilla chips at a Mexican restaurant: You know that you should save your appetite for the entrée, but that plan goes down the tubes when a basket of warm, golden dinner ...
A new study makes predictions that future research could test with lunar rocks acquired by China's upcoming Chang'e 6 mission to the far side of the moon. The moon may have received a volcanic ...
Scientists have shown that a "remelting event" more than 4.3 billion years ago "reset" the internal clock of most lunar rocks, which has helped obscure the moon's true age. When you purchase ...