Moon Formation

NASA’s Juno probe captured vibrant, high-contrast images of Jupiter’s stormy atmosphere and an up-close view of its moon, Amalthea, during the spacecraft’s 66th flyby on October 23. The images were processed by citizen scientists, enhancing the colours to showcase Jupiter’s unique cloud formations and highlighting details of Amalthea agains...

Gaia’s recent data release reveals that over 350 asteroids, once believed to be solitary, have hidden moons. This discovery nearly doubles the known binary asteroid systems, highlighting Gaia’s ability to find new asteroid-moon pairs. The detailed observations from Gaia’s DR3 release offer a glimpse into the early solar system and asteroid fo...

Stargazers may want to glue their eyes to the night sky this week as a stellar formation of celestial bodies is set to take place. In a rare occurrence, five planets will appear aligned in order in the predawn sky along with the moon.

Most rocky planets and satellites, including our Earth and the Moon, are formed or shaped by massive collisions among celestial bodies early in the solar system. When these objects smash together, they could either accumulate more material and increase their size or they can break apart into multiple smaller bodies.

A recent study led by German Aerospace Center revealed that the Moon may have been formed 4.425 billion years ago, going against earlier studies that suggested that natural satellite may be 4.51 billion years old.

China’s Yutu-2 lunar rover discovered a strange greenish substance on the far side of the Moon. A study identified the structure to be breccia, a rare rock formation.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has released a comprehensive new map of the Moon in partnership with NASA and the Lunar Planetary Institute.

Lunar eclipse 2020 tonight: Here are the details you need to capture the event with your smartphone's camera. Lunar eclipse is known as chandra grahan in Hindi.

ISRO has released fresh set of pictures of impact craters on moon surface taken by its Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter.

Scientists have said they could be a step closer to solving the riddle behind the Moon's formation, unveiling the most detailed survey yet of the far side of Earth's satellite.

Scientists on Wednesday said they could be a step closer to solving the riddle behind the Moon's formation, unveiling the most detailed survey yet of the far side of Earth's satellite.

The Moon was formed when a planet-sized object struck the infant Earth some 4.5 billion years ago, a new study has found, confirming the most prevalent hypothesis on the formation of the lunar body.

The Kessler brothers return with the second season of Bloodline, and Chelsea Handler gets the talk show format to the online streaming service.

Debunking earlier age estimates for both the Earth and the Moon, geochemists have discovered that the final stage of the formation of the two is around 60 million years older than was previously thought.

German scientists said Thursday that moon samples collected during the 1960s and 1970s have shown new evidence that the moon formed when a young Earth collided with another celestial body.

NASA’s Juno probe captured vibrant, high-contrast images of Jupiter’s stormy atmosphere and an up-close view of its moon, Amalthea, during the spacecraft’s 66th flyby on October 23. The images were processed by citizen scientists, enhancing the colours to showcase Jupiter’s unique cloud formations and highlighting details of Amalthea agains...

Gaia’s recent data release reveals that over 350 asteroids, once believed to be solitary, have hidden moons. This discovery nearly doubles the known binary asteroid systems, highlighting Gaia’s ability to find new asteroid-moon pairs. The detailed observations from Gaia’s DR3 release offer a glimpse into the early solar system and asteroid fo...

Stargazers may want to glue their eyes to the night sky this week as a stellar formation of celestial bodies is set to take place. In a rare occurrence, five planets will appear aligned in order in the predawn sky along with the moon.

Most rocky planets and satellites, including our Earth and the Moon, are formed or shaped by massive collisions among celestial bodies early in the solar system. When these objects smash together, they could either accumulate more material and increase their size or they can break apart into multiple smaller bodies.

A recent study led by German Aerospace Center revealed that the Moon may have been formed 4.425 billion years ago, going against earlier studies that suggested that natural satellite may be 4.51 billion years old.

China’s Yutu-2 lunar rover discovered a strange greenish substance on the far side of the Moon. A study identified the structure to be breccia, a rare rock formation.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has released a comprehensive new map of the Moon in partnership with NASA and the Lunar Planetary Institute.

Lunar eclipse 2020 tonight: Here are the details you need to capture the event with your smartphone's camera. Lunar eclipse is known as chandra grahan in Hindi.

ISRO has released fresh set of pictures of impact craters on moon surface taken by its Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter.

Scientists have said they could be a step closer to solving the riddle behind the Moon's formation, unveiling the most detailed survey yet of the far side of Earth's satellite.

Scientists on Wednesday said they could be a step closer to solving the riddle behind the Moon's formation, unveiling the most detailed survey yet of the far side of Earth's satellite.

The Moon was formed when a planet-sized object struck the infant Earth some 4.5 billion years ago, a new study has found, confirming the most prevalent hypothesis on the formation of the lunar body.

The Kessler brothers return with the second season of Bloodline, and Chelsea Handler gets the talk show format to the online streaming service.

Debunking earlier age estimates for both the Earth and the Moon, geochemists have discovered that the final stage of the formation of the two is around 60 million years older than was previously thought.

German scientists said Thursday that moon samples collected during the 1960s and 1970s have shown new evidence that the moon formed when a young Earth collided with another celestial body.