As the Earth flies through space in its celestial dance around the sun, it's accompanied by its perpetual partner, the moon.

Where did our moon come from? The origin is even stranger than you may imagine. Where did our unique moon come from? It turns out that lunar rocks brought back by Apollo astronauts are a clue, ...

All summer long, Short Wave has been on a 10-episode odyssey through the changing universe. We've covered planets, stars, life in space and even the possible ends of the universe. But there was one ...

New research suggests Earth's Moon formed from the catastrophic collision of our planet with its "sister" planet, Theia, born nearby. This "sibling" planet theory, supported by iron isotope evidence, ...

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

NASA satellites orbiting the moon have photographed most of its surface. Planetary geologists have identified numerous scarps on the lunar surface, wrinkles caused by the moon’s shrinkage. You have ...

It’s a general rule in science that the more you know about some aspect of the natural world, the better you understand it. But rules are sometimes broken, and the question of how Earth got its Moon ...

"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system.

The Hunter's Supermoon, the biggest full moon of 2024, will take to the skies later this week, occurring within mere hours of the moon’s closest approach to Earth. Here’s what you need to know about ...