Everything we thought we knew about the moon's origins may be wrong, new research suggests. Ever since we landed the first humans on the moon, scientists have thought that our lone lunar companion ...

Billions of years ago, so the theory goes, something around the size of Mars smacked into Earth, spewing a whole bunch of dirt into space that eventually coalesced to form the Moon. This is called the ...

Recent scientific research has unearthed an intriguing proposition that Earth may have once been orbited by two moons instead ...

According to researchers at NASA, the moon— and Earth— was part of a massive planetary collision with masses that were five-times the size of Mars. During this collision, the outer layers of the Earth ...

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, and the question of how it was formed, has long been a source of fascination and wonder. Now, a team of Israeli researchers suggests that the Moon we see every night is not Earth’s first ...

The large low velocity provinces (LLVPs) in the deep Earth mantle may be relics of Theian mantle materials. Credit: Deng Hongping and Hangzhou Sphere Studio An interdisciplinary international research ...

A new study published in Science Advances suggests that the long-standing enigma of the Moon’s magnetism may finally have a ...

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 ...

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How did our moon form? Many astronomers believe that Earth and a Mars-size protoplanet crashed into each other 4.5 billion years ago, shortly after the birth of the solar system. The debris from this ...