How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

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.

Seismic imaging has revealed two colossal regions deep within Earth’s mantle that could reshape our understanding of the ...

How did Earth, alone among the Solar System's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

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.

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

Simulations of the collision with Theia, however, suggest that an impact of that nature would cause the majority of debris to originate from Theia, not Earth.

Now, the most high resolution computer simulation ever made shows it could have been formed in a matter of hours following a collision between a proto-Earth and a Mars-sized orbital intruder.

Here, the team took a different approach, suggesting that perhaps the problem isn't the theory but our simulation of it. Older simulations used hundreds of thousands or millions of "particles"—you can ...

The simulations show that the upper and lower mantles have different compositions and states after the collision. The lower mantle is mostly solid and with little contamination from Theia; roughly ...

Most theories claim the Moon formed out of the debris of this collision, coalescing in orbit over months or years. A new simulation puts forth a different theory – the Moon may have formed immediately ...