Multiple impacts on Earth might better explain our moon’s origin than a single giant impact 4.5 billion years ago – and could help solve one of its biggest mysteries. Pinning down the origin of our ...

LONDON — A long-lost planet that helped create the Moon may have formed much closer to the Sun than scientists once thought, according to new research. Scientists have discovered that Theia, the ...

It turns out the moon is a little younger than scientists previously thought — about 85 million years younger, to be precise. In a new study, researchers at the German Aerospace Center found out that, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New isotope measurements reveal where Theia formed and how its impact shaped Earth and the Moon. (CREDIT: AI-generated / The ...

On this episode of SETI Live, host Moiya McTier welcomes two leading researchers—Gabriele Cugno (University of Zürich) & Sierra L. Grant (Carnegie Institution for Science)—to dive into an ...