Evidence to support an older age for the formation of the Moon, around 4.51 billion years ago, as per a paper published in the journal Nature. This new analysis suggests that a re ...

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon, came from closer to the sun. Artist’s impression of the collision between ...

The Earth and the Moon may look very different today, but they formed under similar conditions in space. In fact, a dominant ...

The story of how the Moon came to be has always carried a touch of mystery. Picture the young Solar System as a restless place where new worlds grew from swirling gas, dust, and rock. In that chaotic ...

Scientists have long believed that the Moon was formed by a massive object crashing into the Earth billions of years ago and sending chunks hurtling into space that ultimately coalesced. But what was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This view was taken from above the ringplane and looks toward the unlit side of the rings. Here, the probe gazes upon Titan in the ...

Scientists from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and Physical Research Laboratory have discovered new details about ...

Whether it’s under the stars on the Main Green, from smudged dorm windows or through open sunroofs, we see the moon nearly every night. But a new study by Brown researchers suggests that we know less ...

The Moon's largest, most ancient crater, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, could rewrite the textbooks on how our Moon was formed. New analysis of the 1,600-mile-wide scar on the lunar far side ...

Theories abound to address how our moon was formed. After we brought moon rocks back from the lunar excursions of the 60s, certain facts became clear, like the striking similarity between Earth's ...