The conventional explanation for the moon's formation is that an enormous rock smashed into the nascent Earth and created it as a result. A new theory challenges the particulars of how events may have ...

A research team has discovered another piece in the puzzle of the formation of the Moon and water on Earth. The prevailing theory was that the Moon was the result of a collision between the early ...

Despite what scientists have believed for roughly half a century, the Moon might not be 4.35 billion years old. Instead, it could be about 160 million years older. New research suggests that what were ...