"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." A widely accepted explanation for how the moon formed is the Giant Impact Hypothesis. Lunar research ...

Billions of years ago, so the theory goes, something around the size of Mars smacked into Earth, spewing a whole bunch of dirt into space that eventually coalesced to form the Moon. This is called the ...

Hi folks, tune in every week of 2023 for the best in astronomy from Astronomy Editor Dave Eicher, brought to you by Celestron. This week, we’ll discuss the formation of Earth’s only natural satellite, ...

We already know a decent amount about how planets form, but moon formation is another process entirely, and one we're not as familiar with. Scientists think they understand how the most important moon ...

A crucial difference in the “fingerprints” of Earth and the moon confirms an explosive, interconnected past Within the first 150 million years after our solar system formed, a giant body roughly the ...

Paleoselenologists are pretty sure that the Moon formed when a rogue planet about the size of Mars smacked into Earth billions of years ago. New models suggest that the rogue planet was not actually ...

Washington, D.C. Using new techniques, scientists have discovered for the first time that tiny beads of volcanic glasses collected from two Apollo missions to the Moon contain water. The researchers ...