Roughly 4.3 billion years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the far side of the moon, carving out the South Pole–Aitken ...

If you know any bit of information about how the moon was created, new research indicates that everyone has believed wrong.

Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...

The Moon is not, in fact, a giant cosmic wheel of Gouda. In a landmark paper published in Nature, researchers from the French ...

Scientists traced the Moon's parent planet Theia to the inner Solar System, solving a 4.5-billion-year mystery.

According to researchers, the composition of a planet or celestial body holds the entire story of its formation and origin.

About 4.5 billion years ago, a colossal impact between the young Earth and a mysterious planetary body called Theia changed everything—reshaping Earth, forming the Moon, and scattering clues across ...

A new scientific study is rewriting one of the most recognized origin stories in astronomy: how the Moon was formed may not ...

A protoplanet crashed into Earth more than four billion years ago, ejecting the Moon. It is now clear where the protoplanet ...

Chinese scientists looking at the Moon samples brought back by the Chang'e-6 mission find evidence of micron-sized hematite ...