Astronomers have taken a step towards understanding how the Moon might have formed out of a giant collision between the early Earth and another massive object 4.5 billion years ago. Scientists led by ...

The story of creation, whether of worlds or moons, has long fascinated humanity. For decades, most scientists agreed that the Moon was born from a violent collision between Earth and a Mars-sized body ...

The simulation below demonstrates how the single-stage formation would have happened. Theia's impact causes a massive disruption in the primordial Earth, ejecting material that initially forms two ...

While the moon’s surface is battered by millions of craters, it also has over 200 holes – steep-walled pits that in some cases might lead to caves that future astronauts could explore and use for ...

MFM simulation of the canonical Moon-Forming giant impact. Here different colors trace different components of Gaia and Theia. The lower mantle of Gaia, denoted by the dashed circle with a radius of 0 ...

The large low velocity provinces (LLVPs) in the deep Earth mantle may be relics of Theian mantle materials. Credit: Deng Hongping and Hangzhou Sphere Studio An interdisciplinary international research ...