the moon will be a thin crescent and to the right of Mercury. The closeness to the horizon makes spotting the two a challenge, but one can use the moon to orient. To see the conjunction one must ...

Early risers may want to see a waning crescent moon close to Spica, the brightest star in the constellation Virgo. Look southeast an hour before sunrise, and while you're observing, have a look ...

A new study suggests the moon is 4.51 billion years old, 100 million years older than previously thought. This revised age is based on the re-melting of lunar rocks due to Earth's gravitational ...

The formation of the Moon may have come harder on the heels of Earth's birth than we thought. According to a new analysis by researchers from the US, France, and Germany, Earth's constant companion ...

The Moon has long been the Earth's close companion, but researchers have struggled to understand exactly when the moon formed, because tiny crystals in the moon rocks brought home by astronauts ...

Artist's impression of what the Moon looked like during the tidal-heating event. There would have been intense volcanic activity everywhere. The early Earth would have loomed much larger in the sky ...

A new study makes predictions that future research could test with lunar rocks acquired by China's upcoming Chang'e 6 mission to the far side of the moon. The moon may have received a volcanic ...

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