The Moon, Williams and Zugger say, has an orbit around Earth that isn't as neatly aligned with the equator as you might ...

Research suggests the Earth captured the Moon from space, rather than forming the rocky satellite from collision particles ...

It is widely believed that the moon formed during a collision between Earth and a small planet known as Theia.

Scientists have detected the gases carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on Pluto’s largest moon, ‘Charon’, which they said ...

How did the Moon form? Was it from a collision, as has been the longstanding theory, or could it have been captured by the ...

In the outer reaches of our Solar System, 5.7 billion kilometres from the Sun, lies the dwarf planet Pluto. Smaller than ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide at the surface of ...

As much as over 90 percent of the dwarf planet's crust could be water ice, giving some insight, the researchers believe, into ...

How far away is the moon? But the distance between Earth and our closest neighbor is more nuanced than a single number. "The ...

Researchers used observations from the Webb Telescope to identify carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the surface of ...

Observations by the James Webb Space Telescope are giving scientists a fuller understanding about the composition and ...