For more than half a century, scientists pictured the Moon as an almost fully reduced world where iron stayed locked in ...

A joint research team from the Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGCAS) and Shandong University ...

Lunar rocks brought back by China’s Chang’e-6 mission contain the first clear physical evidence of hematite and maghemite ...

For the first time, the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk around a planet has been revealed. The James Webb Space Telescope has, for the first time, measured the carbon-rich concoction that ...

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 ...

Two immense canyons on the moon's far side that rival Earth's Grand Canyon were produced by a cataclysmic collision nearly four billion years ago, according to new research published on Tuesday.

The team of astronomers behind the find suggested it could help us better understand planet and moon formation in our solar system and beyond the Milky Way. The team was able to make the first-ever ...

For the first time, astronomers have found a disk around a Jupiter-like planet outside of our solar system -- the kind of disk where moons could actively be forming. The disk, known as a ...

The sky is full of stars, and for the first time in human history, we know what's orbiting some of them. There are more than 4,000 confirmed exoplanets, but just a few have been directly imaged. A ...