A physicist, a chemist and a mathematician walk into a bar. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but in my case, it was ...

How did the Moon form? Was it from a collision, as has been the longstanding theory, or could it have been captured by the Earth early in our planet’s formation? This is what a recent study published ...

Artemis astronauts may walk across the Moon’s deepest story - rock blasted from a 4.3-billion-year-old impact that still ...

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

A physicist, a chemist, and a mathematician walk into a bar. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but in my case, it was the start of an idea that could reshape how scientists think about the ...

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 ...

The shocking discovery of hematite on the Moon was made a few years ago. Hematite forms from the oxidation of iron, a process ...

Francis Nimmo has previously received NASA funding relevant to the Moon. A physicist, a chemist and a mathematician walk into a bar. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but in my case, it was the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Francis Nimmo, University of California, Santa Cruz (THE CONVERSATION) A physicist, a ...