About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.

The researchers analyzed lunar samples that had remained unopened since they were collected by Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972.

Sealed Apollo 17 samples analyzed with new techniques reveal that the Moon’s interior contains sulfur isotopes unlike those ...

More than 50 years after the Apollo 17 Moon rocks returned to Earth, researchers are still uncovered surprising new details ...

The conventional explanation for the moon's formation is that an enormous rock smashed into the nascent Earth and created it as a result. A new theory challenges the particulars of how events may have ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles within this cloud collided and clumped together, driven by gravity and ...

Scientists have discovered that the far side of the Moon is colder deep within its interior than the side that always faces ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical ...

The shocking discovery of hematite on the Moon was made a few years ago. Hematite forms from the oxidation of iron, a process ...

A recent study suggests oxygen leaking from Earth's atmosphere may be behind the presence of hematite, a type of rust, near ...

So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases ...