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

However, objects captured in orbit tend to have elongated, inclined and sometimes retrograde trajectories around their new ...

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

New research explores if the moon was captured by Earth or formed by a collision. Scientists weigh theories, analyzing lunar ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers at Penn State University suggest that Earth’s only satellite may have come from a “binary-exchange capture” ...

Although the Moon is the closest neighbour to our planet, scientists have still not been able to determine its origin. Since ...