When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Earth's moon is believed to have formed from an ancient impact. Could some of our planet's oldest ...

The familiar gray face in our night sky is not as passive as it looks. New research suggests the moon has been quietly collecting particles from Earth’s upper atmosphere for billions of years, turning ...

Crystals hidden in Australia’s oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests Earth’s continents didn’t begin growing until hundreds of millions of years ...

Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be ...

Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field. Rather than blocking particles, the magnetic field can funnel them along ...