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 ...

Eons ago, in the frigid depths of our solar system, a dramatic collision occurred between two icy worlds. Instead of a catastrophic smash-up, the two bodies "kissed," merging temporarily like a ...

How did the Moon form? Was it from a collision, as has been the longstanding theory, or could it have been captured by the Earth early in our planet’s formation? This is what a recent study published ...

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 ...

The moon may be more than 100 million years older than some scientists previously thought, according to a new study. The research, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, challenges the ...

Earth's calm and cool lunar companion may indeed once have been a roiling ball of molten rock, new research has found. The moon has been long theorized to have formed due to a Mars-sized planet named ...

(CNN) — About 3.8 billion years ago, two massive canyons likely formed on the moon in a span of less than 10 minutes, according to new research. The extraordinary formations, each comparable in size ...

Francis Nimmo has previously received NASA funding relevant to the Moon. A physicist, a chemist and a mathematician walk into a bar. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but in my case, it was the ...