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 ...
Although the Moon is the closest neighbour to our planet, scientists have still not been able to determine its origin. Since ...
Researchers at Penn State University suggest that Earth’s only satellite may have come from a “binary-exchange capture” ...
How to find Neptune’s giant moon Triton, Neptune’s largest moon, is one of the promising places in the Solar System to look for signs of life. About 1,700km in diameter, it’s geologically ...
Neptune’s moon Triton, which orbits in the opposite direction from other moons, is thought to have been captured from the Kuiper Belt. This lends credence to the idea that Earth could have captured ...