This cataclysmic event sent debris into orbit, which eventually coalesced to form the Moon. While this model has substantial support, including evidence from the composition of Earth's mantle and ...

This proposes that the Moon formed during a collision between the Earth and another small planet, about the size of the planet Mars. The debris from this impact collected in an orbit around Earth to ...

Mare Crisium, or the 'Sea of Crises', can be spotted on the night of May 30 as an oval-shaped dark patch on the moon's ...

As the bright star Regulus and the Beehive Cluster shine close by. The moon will appear to skip over Mars between the nights ...

The moon could have formed immediately after a cataclysmic ... and to learn more about how planets form throughout and beyond our solar system." Such investigations could also shed light on ...

No one was there to see the Moon form, but let’s side with Einstein and assume that this was a real event that actually happened. Without direct observation, we have to get clever to figure out ...

An instant moon? That may be how it happened, according to new supercomputer simulations suggesting a giant impact between Earth and a “Mars-sized body” could have put a moon-like body into ...

Always, there was a standout mystery: how did the moon form and find a home orbiting our blue planet? 🌒 You love the cosmos. So do we. Let’s nerd out over it together. Apollo astronauts kick ...

Always, there was a standout mystery: how did the moon form and find a home orbiting our blue planet? 🌒 You love the cosmos. So do we. Let’s nerd out over it together. Apollo astronauts kick-started ...