Scientists proposed an explanation for the formation of Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck near the lunar south pole, which ...

Water, one of the essential ingredients for life on Earth, did not appear on the planet until after the moon-forming event, a new study claims ...

An undated artistic rendering shows an asteroid or comet striking near the Moon's south pole about 3.8 billion years ago, an ...

Even though humans have pondered the moon since the first of us looked skyward, there is still much we don't know about it.

NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered a giant volcanic hot spot on the surface of Jupiter's hellish moon Io. The eruptions in ...

Research analyzing molybdenum isotopes in meteorites and Earth rocks shows our planet received its water later than ...

The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has uncovered an immense volcanic hot spot on Jupiter’s moon Io, surpassing any previously recorded ...

In a celestial event known as a great alignment the five planets will be discernible with the naked eye, but to see Neptune ...

Mercury joins the night sky to complete a 7-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...

NASA has shared details of what to look out for in the night sky this month, with the moon appearing alongside a parade of planets.

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...