New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon ...

The story of how the Moon came to be has always carried a touch of mystery. Picture the young Solar System as a restless place where new worlds grew from swirling gas, dust, and rock. In that chaotic ...

A physicist, a chemist and a mathematician walk into a bar. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but in my case, it was ...

How did the Moon form? Was it from a collision, as has been the longstanding theory, or could it have been captured by the Earth early in our planet’s formation? This is what a recent study published ...

The moon's orbit isn't a perfect circle. Instead, it's more stretched out, kind of like an oval, which means its distance from Earth varies by about 30,000 miles (48,000 km). The surface of 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, it was the start of an idea that could reshape how scientists think about the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Earth's moon is thought to have formed when a Mars-sized object, called Theia, slammed into the ...

Did the Moon’s geological activity stop billions of years ago after it formed, or has it been active since then? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Francis Nimmo, University of California, Santa Cruz (THE CONVERSATION) A physicist, a ...