Impact simulations could change how researchers understand moon formation and may help constrain the timing of the event.

The findings, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, account for the material strength of the two colliding worlds ...

A peculiar property of the Earth's magnetic field could help us to work out how our planet was created 4.5 billion years ago, according to a new scientific assessment. There are several theories about ...

Billions of years ago, in the giant disk of dust, gas, and rocky material that orbited our young sun, larger and larger bodies coalesced to eventually give rise to the planets, moons, and asteroids we ...

Researchers at Curtin University have established a new framework for dating the Earth's evolution including the formations of continents and mineral deposits. The research, published in Earth Science ...

There are several theories about how the Earth and the Moon were formed, most involving a giant impact. They vary from a model where the impacting object strikes the newly formed Earth a glancing blow ...