China’s Chang’e-6 mission has made lunar history by retrieving the first-ever samples from the Moon’s mysterious farside, ...

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

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 ...

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.

Most theories claim the Moon formed out of the debris of a collision between the Earth and an object about the size of Mars, called Theia, coalescing in orbit over months or years. A new ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...