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 ...

The conventional explanation for the moon's formation is that an enormous rock smashed into the nascent Earth and created it as a result. A new theory challenges the particulars of how events may have ...

A new analysis of rocks collected by Apollo astronauts on the moon more than 40 years ago bolsters the leading theory of our natural satellite's origin — that it formed from a collision between a ...

New modeling of the early solar system is reshaping the familiar story of how the Moon formed, suggesting that Earth and the impactor known as Theia may have spent their youth circling the Sun as near ...

India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission has obtained the first measurements of the composition of the soil near the Moon’s south pole 1. The minerals found offer further evidence that the lunar surface was ...

However, recent research on soil samples from the Chang'e 6 mission challenges this long-held assumption, suggesting that ...

Samples from China’s Chang’e Six mission reveal how a colossal ancient impact stripped volatile elements, reshaped lunar interiors and transformed volcanic activity across the Moon’s far side.