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 ...

How did the moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, form and evolve orbiting the Red Planet? This is what a recent study published in Icarus hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the ...

The irregular shapes and orbits of Mars’s two small moons, Phobos and Deimos, have long been a subject of scientific curiosity. Recent research suggests that these moons may have originated from ...

A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems include a moon that is a large fraction of the size ...

This composite image of Pluto, right, and Charon, its largest moon, showcases photos captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015. Credit: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI Unlike how scientists believe ...

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 ...