New simulations suggest the moon may have formed almost instantly after a giant impact, not slowly from a debris disk.

When a star reaches its final stages of life, it ends in a bright and powerful explosion called a supernova and scatters material across the universe. A new study led by a University of Hawaiʻi at ...

When massive stars die, some end in supernova explosions that scatter newly forged material through space. Traces of those ancient blasts can eventually settle on nearby worlds, and a new study led by ...

For more than half a century, tiny tubes of gray lunar dirt scooped up by Apollo astronauts have been sitting in NASA vaults. They’ve been prodded, sliced and analyzed to reveal the Moon’s geological ...