Scientists from the Durham University and University of Glasgow worked together in developing simulations using supercomputers that may explain how the Moon may have formed after a collision between ...

The Moon may have formed almost immediately following a devastating impact between Earth and a Mars-sized world in the ancient past, according to the results of a new supercomputer study. Earth’s moon ...

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 ...

There may be chunks of an ancient planet trapped in Earth’s mantle. The prevailing theory of the moon’s formation is called the giant impact hypothesis, in which a Mars-sized object called Theia ...