and dust into space to form the moon. Although the rocks that record the earliest parts of Earth’s history have been destroyed or deformed over time by more than four billion years of geology, ...

Prior to the Apollo mission research there were three theories about how the Moon formed. The evidence returned from these missions gave us today's most widely accepted theory. Capture theory suggests ...

In this potential Moon-forming impact, Theia has half the mass of Mars and strikes at 20 km/s. Theia penetrates all the way to the core of the Earth and throws material out, temporarily forming a ...

MFM simulation of the canonical Moon-Forming giant impact. Here different colors trace different components of Gaia and Theia. The lower mantle of Gaia, denoted by the dashed circle with a radius ...

"The moon is sort of like Earth's attic in terms of preserving the impact records; it's the only place where we can get Earth ...

The first lunar samples from the moon’s far side differ in some interesting ways from those collected from the near side, ...

That means they were formed when the moon itself came into being. Exactly when that happened had, until now, been a mystery. However, how the moon formed is generally accepted to be after a ...

Currently, the leading theory of the creation of the Moon is that it formed from a giant impact between a very early Earth and another Mars-sized planet. Yet new research from the Weizmann ...