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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For nearly 40 years, scientists have generally agreed that Earth’s Moon formed from debris after a massive collision with our ...

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

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 ...

King Triton and his wife, Athena, loved each other very much. She was more than just his queen, but his best friend since they were children and they shared a love for music. When she died, he was ...

These five satellites are the largest commercial communications arrays ever launched in low Earth orbit," commented Abel Avellan, Founder, Chairman and CEO of AST SpaceMobile. "It is a significant ...