Prevailing models for the formation of the Moon invoke a giant impact between a planetary embryo and the proto-Earth \citep {Canup_2004, Cuk_Stewart_2012}. Despite similarities in the isotopic and ...

Water found in ancient Moon rocks might have actually originated from the proto-Earth and even survived the Moon-forming event. Scientists have studied the amount of water within lunar rocks returned ...

Measurements of an element in Earth and Moon rocks have just disproved the leading hypotheses for the origin of the Moon. Tiny differences in the segregation of the isotopes of potassium between the ...

The newborn Earth was struck by a Mars-size rock that helped create the moon, and the impact may have left behind continent-size remnants of the rock near Earth's core, a new study finds. This "giant ...

In this week’s news roundup, Rachel Feltman, editor of the Washington Post’s Speaking of Science blog, talks about a new study that says that the moon’s Imbrium Basin may have been created by a ...

Measurements of an element in Earth and Moon rocks have just disproved the leading hypotheses for the origin of the Moon. Tiny differences in the segregation of the isotopes of potassium between the ...