The Moon is slowly moving away from Earth, a fact confirmed by decades of laser measurements and detailed in a recent analysis published in The Conversation. While the drift happens at a snail’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists studying Chang’e-6 Moon samples discovered rare water-rich meteorite fragments, offering new clues about how water ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has made an exciting discovery, revealing a new moon orbiting Uranus, estimated to be just six miles in diameter. This tiny celestial body adds a new chapter to our ...

Under this new model, Titan itself is the result of a collision between two earlier moons: a large body called “Proto-Titan,” nearly as massive as modern Titan, and a smaller companion dubbed ...

This idea later ran afoul of conservation of angular momentum. A proto-Earth rotating with a two- to three-hour day would have had four times the angular momentum of the present Earth-moon system.