Hakuto-r captures a rare “terrestrial sunrise” during a total eclipse just before crashing into the Moon, revealing the shadow on Earth.

This was the second moon landing mission organized by the Japanese startup that concluded with a failure, except this photograph and a tiny hut.

Scientists have long believed that the Moon was formed by a massive object crashing into the Earth. But what was that thing ...

"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system. Earth and Theia are likely to have been neighbors." Over 4.5 billion years ...

This means that the lunar regolith could still hold a very long-term record of Earth's atmospheric history, which in turn ...

Scientists have spotted a small asteroid that may circle Earth as a mini moon before shifting onto a path that could make it a hazard later in the century. NASA has calculated the asteroid’s orbit and ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-size world slammed into the young Earth with such tremendous force that it melted huge swaths of our planet's mantle and blasted a disk of molten debris into orbit.