01 November 2016
New twist on Moon formation helps explain its weird orbit
... by the impact. The giant impact theory basically states that late in the formation of the Solar System a Mars-sized object grazed an early Earth, throwing off a mass of material from which the Moon condensed. This impact set...
06 November 2020
The Moon could have a long-lost "twin" in orbit around Mars
... and the other planets.” How the Moon formed is a matter of debate, but many scientists think that a Mars-sized object collided with a proto-Earth ejecting substantial material that eventually collected and coalesced in an orbit around our...
22 May 2019
Water came to Earth when the Moon formed says study
... scientists have suggested that it took just one large Mars-sized object to flood our world with water; one that swept... ensuing fallout have not been agreed upon entirely, but the object – called Theia – is generally accepted to have originated in...
04 February 2019
The Moon is a mini-Earth suggests new research
... into being after a young Earth was struck by a mar-sized object billions of years ago. The material that was flung from...that the Moon is not made of material from the Mars-sized impacting body. Righter also complemented his models with experiments...
03 July 2020
More metal on the Moon than previously thought, new study suggests
... many scientists agree that it likely evolved after a Mars-sized object crashed into Earth leaving behind a trail of debris... to many different hypotheses, each explaining how the impacting object may have contributed to the differences. Now though, a...
