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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Italian energy giant Eni is firing up the world’s most powerful supercomputer outside the US this ...

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 ...

Here’s how it works. An uncrewed Orion spacecraft successfully traveled thousands of miles beyond the moon and back, demonstrating its ability to one day transport astronauts to lunar orbit ...

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 may be much older than previously thought, according to a new study. Planetary scientists believe the moon's surface may have "remelted" around 4.35 billion years ago, masking much older ...

Francis Nimmo has previously received NASA funding relevant to the Moon. A physicist, a chemist and a mathematician walk into a bar. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but in my case ...

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 ...