Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

"The chemical and isotopic evidence is now sufficiently strong to start questioning the fundamental mechanisms of Moon formation," Sossi said. "We're also pleased to see how interrelated the ...

But the final stage of planet formation in our solar system may have taken much longer - up to a hundred million years or so. This was not only the last major addition of material to the Earth, but ...

Researchers are still not sure how old the moon is. However, there is now growing evidence that it is almost as old as our ...

New research from scientists with the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and published in the journal Science found that sample analysis backs up an established model of the moon as a global ...

A team of geologists at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, the Institute of Space Sciences and the Shandong ...

Russian scientists believe that the theory of the Moon’s formation from the primary proto-planet substance, not from the Earth’s mantle, appears to be more realistic than the impact theory ...

Illustration of a stage in the formation of the Earth-moon system. The Earth had recently formed (4,600 million years ago) when it was struck by a large protoplanet, sometimes dubbed Theia, roughly ...

Blue Ghost, an unmanned spacecraft sent by the Texas-based Firefly Aerospace, has just landed on the moon. The lunar landing ...