For the Moon itself, the story is different. The Moon has far less water than Earth, but for such a dry world it’s important.

It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the very early Solar System ...

There's a bright side to every situation. In 2032, the moon itself might have a particularly bright side if it is blasted by ...

Planetary scientists analyzing oxygen isotopes in lunar soil from the Apollo mission sites conclude that meteorite bombardment over 4 billion years could only have delivered a tiny fraction of Earth’s ...

Earlier research held that meteorite impacts from the solar system's early days were a major source of Earth's water.

When a NASA scientist finally cracked open a cache of 50-year-old lunar soil, the expectation was to refine old models, not ...

For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This coincided with the Late Heavy Bombardment (ca. 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago), a ...

A rare iron meteorite has been found in the Sahara Desert, providing scientists a unique glimpse into the cores of ancient ...

Christina Koch and her Artemis II crewmates have been training since 2023 for the mission that will return humans to lunar ...

Nasa researchers studying Apollo-era lunar soil discovered that meteorites from the Moon provided only a small fraction of ...

A colossal asteroid-like invader once ripped through the lunar crust, flinging out rings of mountains and scooping out a ...

The huge 1,600-mile (2,500-kilometer) wide expanse of the South Pole–Aitken Basin extends considerably onto the far side of ...