The hollow moon conspiracy theory came about during the Apollo missions in 1969. Conspiracy theorists misinterpreted the results of the astronauts’ seismic experiments, leading them to believe the ...

The Moon is not, in fact, a giant cosmic wheel of Gouda. In a landmark paper published in Nature, researchers from the French National Center of Scientific Research delivered a hard truth: the Moon is ...

Theories abound to address how our moon was formed. After we brought moon rocks back from the lunar excursions of the 60s, certain facts became clear, like the striking similarity between Earth's ...

The moon is our constant companion and the only natural object that always orbits Earth. It's about four times smaller than Earth and its gravity is much weaker, which is why astronauts bounce around ...

Some 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized rock is theorized to have collided with the proto-Earth. The collision is one of the only ways to create an Earth-Moon system with the properties we observe ...

A Democratic congresswoman is getting a lesson about space after a claim she made about the moon. On Tuesday, a video surfaced of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) speaking about the moon. She said, ...

It’s not everyday someone confuses the sun and the moon, but that is what Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) has done. Lee took to X, formerly Twitter, to correct a statement she made about the moon ...

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon ...

The moon's orbit isn't a perfect circle. Instead, it's more stretched out, kind of like an oval, which means its distance from Earth varies by about 30,000 miles (48,000 km). The surface of the moon ...