Astronomers have taken a step towards understanding how the Moon might have formed out of a giant collision between the early Earth and another massive object 4.5 billion years ago. Scientists led by ...

The story of creation, whether of worlds or moons, has long fascinated humanity. For decades, most scientists agreed that the Moon was born from a violent collision between Earth and a Mars-sized body ...

This finding challenges the long-held belief that the lunar surface or interior does not have enough oxygen to facilitate ...

A joint research team from the Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGCAS) and Shandong University ...

Learn more about the time when the moon didn’t exist, and then hours later suddenly did. Einstein once asked whether “the moon exists only when I look at it?". It was rhetorical objection to the idea ...

The giant-impact hypothesis is presented as the leading explanation for the Moon's formation. The Moon's lower iron content, relative to Earth, is cited as evidence supporting the giant-impact theory, ...

Two primary theories explain planetary moon formation: gravitational capture within a planet's Hill sphere radius and simultaneous formation with the solar system during its accretion disk phase. A ...

This composite image of Pluto, right, and Charon, its largest moon, showcases photos captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015. Credit: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI Unlike how scientists believe ...