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

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

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

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

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

Scientists from Pennsylvania State University have presented a new theory regarding the origin of the Moon. Their findings ...

However, this theory does not explain why the Moon's orbit is tilted about seven degrees relative to Earth's equator, an ...

Triton, Neptune's largest satellite, is thought to have been captured from the Kuiper Belt. Its highly inclined and retrograde orbit reinforces this hypothesis. The Moon, according to this capture ...

But while the inner moons orbit Neptune in the same direction, Triton goes the other way, suggesting it didn't form alongside Neptune, but came from elsewhere. HOWETT: What a planet's made from ...

(Pic courtesy: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona) Neptune has 16 known moons, of which Triton is the largest. Interestingly it is the only large moon in our solar system with a retrograde orbit ...

Ram Trucks is making Brazil even more eager to buy its new Rampage compact unibody pickup truck produced locally with ...