The moon was formed 4.5 billion years ago in a "giant impact" that left Earth with a two-hour day, according to new research. Scientists have long debated the circumstances which led to the formation ...

Scientists have proposed a shocking new theory for the origin of the moon, and their calculations suggest Earth once had a secret world hiding right next door. Astronomers believe that the moon was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles within this cloud collided and clumped together, driven by gravity and ...

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 ...

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 ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Scientists continue to explore the deep story of how Earth and the moon formed. One idea has gained attention because it pushes us to imagine the planet in its earliest and wildest ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, a colossal impact between the young Earth and a mysterious planetary body called Theia changed everything—reshaping Earth, forming the Moon, and scattering clues across ...