A new simulation reveals an alternative explanation for the moon’s formation. The moon is thought to have formed following a collision between Earth and a Mars-sized object, called Theia.
A 2022 simulation of the giant impact that created the moon. Credit: NASA / Durham University / Jacob Kegerreis A third dating scheme, ... suggesting the moon's core formed at about 50 million years.
"'Lunar Horizons' is an immersive, 3D reimagination of a future international lunar mission to the moon's south pole. As a ...
Schematic illustration with a gravity gradient map (blue hexagonal pattern) of the lunar nearside and a cross-section showing two ilmenite-bearing cumulate downwellings from lunar mantle overturn.
Scientists from the University of Arizona (USA) have discovered that computer simulations combined with data from space ...
About 4.5 billion years ago, a small planet smashed into the young Earth, flinging molten rock into space. Slowly, the debris ...
Apr. 8, 2024 — Linking analyses of the moon's gravity field with models of its earliest evolution, scientists tell a story of the moon turning itself inside out after it solidified from a ...
The Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago out of a mixture of dust and gas around the young sun. It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing ...
The European Space Agency has formed its fourth class since 1978 with 5 Europeans who have completed basic astronaut training ...
Through computer models, the team learned that a collision in Pluto's ancient history, before it was fully formed, could have ...
Linking analyses of the moon's gravity field with models of its earliest evolution, scientists tell a story of the moon turning itself inside out after it solidified from a primordial magma ocean.