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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

When Triton first entered orbit, it likely caused chaos among the other moons such that they collided with each other and reconfigured themselves. As further evidence of its oddity, Triton ...

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 ...

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

(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 ...