Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists studying Chang’e-6 Moon samples discovered rare water-rich meteorite fragments, offering new clues about how water ...

Recent scientific research has unearthed an intriguing proposition that Earth may have once been orbited by two moons instead of one. This radical idea not only challenges our understanding of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist’s impression of the planet Theia colliding with ancient Earth to create the moon. (MPS/Mark A. Garlick) Roughly four and a ...

Our Moon was formed from a violent collision that occurred around 4.5 billion years ago. And the giant body that smashed into the Earth, birthing the planet’s natural satellite, was named Theia. A new ...

"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system. Earth and Theia are likely to have been neighbors." When you purchase through ...

Astronomers recently detected a stray quasi-moon in our planet’s orbit, but it's hardly the first stowaway to hang out around Earth. Unlike the Earth's moon, quasi-moons are not gravitationally bound ...

Scientists already knew this could be a doozy. Astronomers previously estimated if 2024 YR4 hits the moon, it could form a crater about one kilometer wide and release some 100 million metric tons of ...

Astronomers discovered a "quasi-satellite" of Earth, also known as a "quasi-moon," dubbed 2025 PN7 in 2025. NASA told Snopes that 2025 PN7 has been in its current configuration "since at least the ...

In a discovery that could rewrite what we know about where water comes from and the building blocks of life in the solar system, researchers have found rare meteorite pieces inside dust brought back ...

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of Earth’s mantle and ejecting a huge debris disk that later formed the moon.