The moon's near and far sides exhibit striking asymmetry—from topography and crustal thickness to volcanic activity—yet the ...

Understanding the Moon’s history requires examining its formation and the events that shaped its surface. For years, scientists have debated its age, with estimates ranging from approximately 4. ...

The Moon is Earth’s constant companion. But as ubiquitous as Luna may seem, Earth hasn’t always had a moon. Some 4.5 billion years ago, when the solar system was still forming, a wandering ...

They claim this could help to narrow down the theories of the Earth-Moon formation and ... any realistic model of the formation of the Earth–Moon system must include magnetic field evolution. ...

Numerous theories have evolved over the years as to how the Earth’s Moon came to be, with one early theory suggesting our Moon formed as a sister world as the Earth was forming, while a second theory ...

For years, scientists believed the moon formed around 4.35 billion years ago, ... The study introduces tidal heating as a major factor in lunar evolution.

While the new study dates the completion of the moon’s formation at a minimum of 4.46 billion years, the entire process, from the planetary collision to the eventual hardening, unfolded over ...

The moon formed after a collision 4.5 billion years ago between the young Earth and a Mars-sized object, called Theia – but what happened next?. Scientists have theorised that a disc of debris slowly ...

The resolution brought the mechanics of large impacts into focus in a way prior, less detailed simulations simply couldn't. And in the process, the work threw a new, potentially simpler theory into ...

Scientists have used the most detailed supercomputer simulations yet to reveal an alternative explanation for the moon's origin. The study suggests a giant impact could have formed a moon-like ...