A new simulation created by researchers could give us a front row seat to how the Moon formed during Earth's early days.

A detailed supercomputer simulation of a titanic impact on early Earth shows the moon may have formed much faster than scientists imagined.

A new simulation puts forth a different theory – the Moon may have formed immediately, in a matter of hours, when material from the Earth and Theia was launched directly into orbit after the impact.

Astronomers have taken a step towards understanding how the Moon might have formed out of a giant collision between the early Earth and another massive object 4.5 billion years ago. Scientists led ...

A new study published in Science Advances suggests that the long-standing enigma of the Moon’s magnetism may finally have a ...

In the most detailed supercomputer simulation yet, an alternative theory has been proposed surrounding how our Moon was first formed. Conducted by researchers from Durham University's Institute ...

A new supercomputer simulation reveals the moon's possible origin. Experts claimed that the moon may have formed faster than previously believed.

A new simulation puts forth a different theory -- the Moon may have formed immediately, in a matter of hours, when material from the Earth and Theia was launched directly into orbit after the impact.

The new simulation gives us something very like our own system - a moon that’s around 1% of the Earth’s mass, with an outer layer heated to 4000K - plenty to give us our magma ocean.

A computer simulation that traces the moon’s formation in high resolution may explain the mystery of why it is so chemically similar to Earth. The conventional story for the moon’s origin is ...

Now, a team led by Dr. Robin Canup from the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, has used a dynamical simulation to model the formation of our natural satellite.

This animation from NASA shows a simulation of how our Moon was formed during the collision. Scientists guess that the Moon formed this way because they’ve found a type of rock called basalt in ...