New Scientist on MSN
Forming moon may have taken three big impacts early in Earth’s history
Conventionally, the moon is thought to have formed during one big impact, but a three-impact model might make more sense ...
The Moon is getting 1½ inches (3.8 centimeters) farther away from the Earth every year. Scientists measure the distance to ...
Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once a year, and it rotates on its axis about once a day (depending on your ...
Space.com on MSN
Earth and Theia smashed to birth the moon, but did they first start out as close neighbors?
"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." ...
IFLScience on MSN
Theia – The Giant Impactor That Formed The Moon – Assembled Closer To The Sun Than Earth Is Now
To our best of our understanding, the Moon formed from Earth following a colossal impact. A Mars-sized world we nicknamed Theia slammed and merged with the primordial Earth, throwing material into ...
Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN
Look Up This Week to See the Bright ‘Cold’ Moon, the Last Supermoon of the Year
December’s full moon will reach peak brightness on Thursday, but it will look striking for the next few nights—especially ...
In addition to being the third consecutive supermoon of the year, as reported by EarthSky, it will be about 357,000 km away from us, making it the second-closest full Moon of the year. Consequently it ...
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