The 2014 finding provided researchers with an explanation that fit into the computer models of an oblique collision. If Theia impacted the early Earth at an angle, scientists would expect the Moon ...

A giant impact crater on the moon may contain primordial pieces of the lunar mantle and remnants of an ancient magma ocean, researchers say. Crewmembers on upcoming Artemis missions could potentially ...

An oblique impact "The elongated shape of Sputnik Planitia strongly suggests that the impact was not a direct head-on collision but rather an oblique one," points out Dr. Martin Jutzi of the ...

"The elongated shape of Sputnik Planitia strongly suggests that the impact was not a direct head-on collision but rather an oblique one," points out Dr. Martin Jutzi of the University of Bern ...