It may be part of the night sky we look up at each night, but the moon's origins remain a mystery that has left scientists ...

It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.

New research explores if the moon was captured by Earth or formed by a collision. Scientists weigh theories, analyzing lunar ...

A new study suggests Earth’s Moon may have been “captured” from a binary system, challenging the long-held impact theory and ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby in 1986 provided the only close-up look at Uranus. Nearly 40 years later, scientists are looking back ...

A town in the Austrian Alps might not seem like the most conducive place to come up with daring space missions. But, for the ...

Researchers at Penn State University suggest that Earth’s only satellite may have come from a “binary-exchange capture” ...

Scientists from Penn State University have proposed a radical new theory for the Moon's origin which overturns the popular ...

In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One ...

With China soon to begin its first commercial space flights, we assess the state of play in the world of travel beyond the ...

Over the next two months, Earth's orbit will encounter meteor showers likely to bring ... Orion at about 11 p.m. The solar ...