Many of the most interesting bodies in our Solar System aren’t planets, but the moons that orbit them. They have active volcanoes, hydrocarbon oceans, geysers, and moon-wide oceans buried under icy ...

The James Webb Space Telescope measured a potential moon-forming disk encircling an exoplanet, NASA recently announced, inviting researchers to observe and study moon formation as it happens, while ...

For the first time, the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk around a planet has been revealed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Multiple impacts on Earth might better explain our moon’s origin than a single giant impact 4.5 billion years ago – and could help solve one of its biggest mysteries. Pinning down the origin of our ...

The story of creation, whether of worlds or moons, has long fascinated humanity. For decades, most scientists agreed that the Moon was born from a violent collision between Earth and a Mars-sized body ...

An artistic rendering of a dust and gas disk encircling the young exoplanet, CT Cha b, 625 light-years from Earth. Spectroscopic data from NASA’s JWST suggest the disk contains the raw materials for ...

Another time, another place A recent discovery from the Spitzer Space Telescope may yield new insight into the origin of our own Moon. Although this discovery was in the news some time ago, the advent ...