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.
Researchers from the University of Arizona used gravity maps and simulations to piece the Moon's history together.
"Perhaps [the] most striking example of this disparity can be found with the central cyclone at Jupiter's north pole," Steve ...
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.
Linking analyses of the moon’s gravity field with models of its earliest evolution, University of Arizona scientists tell a ...
NASA's Juno spacecraft has been investigating Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanically active body in the solar system, and ...
This animation is an artist’s concept of Loki Patera, a lava lake on Jupiter’s moon Io, made using data from the JunoCam ...
Scientists from the University of Arizona (USA) have discovered that computer simulations combined with data from space ...
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 ...
Rebel fighters have handed Myanmar’s army defeat after defeat, for the first time raising the possibility that the military ...
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.