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, ...

Researchers have unveiled new findings that reshape our understanding of the Moon's formation and Earth's early hydration.

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 ...

The study suggests that the Moon likely formed largely from Earth's mantle material — with minimal involvement from Theia.

A research team from the University of Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) has discovered ...

A recent investigation into the moon's formation and Earth's water origin has provided compelling insights. Researchers from ...

THE moon is just a chunk of the Earth and not mainly part of an ancient planet as previously thought, scientists claim.

Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study found that oxygen-17 isotopes on the moon closely ...

A recent study by researchers from the University of Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research has ...

A research team from the University of Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) has discovered another piece in the ...

The larger moons of Pluto and Earth likely formed through a collisional process with Charon and our moon, respectively, ...