It may be part of the night sky we look up at each night, but the moon's origins remain a mystery that has left scientists ...

NASA's Voyager 2 captured this image at a range of 4.4 million miles from the planet, 4 days and 20 hours before closest approach. In this false color image of Neptune, objects that are deep in the ...

New research explores if the moon was captured by Earth or formed by a collision. Scientists weigh theories, analyzing lunar ...

New theory on the origin of the Moon An analogy to Triton, Neptune’s largest moon, supports the binary exchange theory ...

A town in the Austrian Alps might not seem like the most conducive place to come up with daring space missions. But, for the ...

Scientists from Penn State University have proposed a radical new theory for the Moon's origin which overturns the popular ...

For nearly 40 years, scientists have generally agreed that Earth's Moon formed from debris after a massive collision with our ...

Located around 30 times as far from the Sun as Earth, Neptune is not visible to the naked eye. The planet's blue color comes from methane in its atmosphere, which absorbs red wavelengths of light.

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

Sweden has rejected 13 applications for offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea, south of the Sea of Åland, citing defence ...

Guests can see Captain Nemo's Nautilus and the entire fleet of sub 157 ("Neptune") hanging from a crane beside the spiral portion of the outdoor queue which is the vehicle type for the main ride. The ...