I was 6 years old when Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in 1969. The static-crackled words he spoke from the moon of his single step for man being a leap for mankind shaped my ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander is on its way to the moon, capturing amazing images of Earth. Launched on January 15, 2025, on a SpaceX Falcon 9, it is part of NASA’s lunar programme.

THE moon is just a chunk of the Earth and not mainly part of an ancient planet as previously thought, scientists claim. Experts had believed our satellite was created when hypothetical body Theia ...

The prevailing theory had been that the moon was the result of a collision between early Earth and the protoplanet Theia. New measurements indicate that the moon formed from material ejected from ...

Oxygen isotope identity of the Earth and Moon with implications for the formation of the Moon and source of volatiles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2024; 121 (52) DOI: 10.1073 ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A small near-Earth asteroid, 2024 PT5, may originate from the Moon, as its reflectance spectrum matches lunar samples but not known asteroid types. This suggests ...

Thanks to the parallax effect, the Moon's relative motion in its orbit around Earth appears significantly faster than the movement of Mars in its orbit around the Sun. There are undoubtedly ...

The static-crackled words he spoke from the moon of his single step for man ... describe their experience of seeing the Earth from afar and having their breath taken away by the beauty and in ...