The Christian Science Monitor
| 8 months ago
October 18, 2012 The moon did indeed coalesce out of tiny bits of pulverized planet blasted into space by a catastrophic collision 4.5 billion years ago, two new studies suggest.
BBC
| 8 months ago
New spins put on old questions The impact is supposed to have thrown debris into space that then coalesced into a satellite Scientists have put a new turn on the theory of how the Moon was created. It has long been thought that the lunar body...
Zee News
| 8 months ago
The middle-sized moons of Saturn, half a dozen icy bodies dwarfed by Saturn's massive moon Titan, are among the mysteries of the outer solar system. Now, a new model for the origin of the Saturn system has indicated that these middle-sized moons were...
Sydney Morning Herald
| 8 months ago
Paul Rovere A chemical quirk found in lunar soil backs a 37-year-old theory that the moon was created by an apocalyptic collision between Earth and a huge space rock, scientists said. Back in 1975, astronomers proposed at a conference that billions...
Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
In a slew of studies published Wednesday, planetary scientists provided new evidence supporting the long-standing but imperfect theory that the Earth and moon formed after the proto-Earth collided with another huge planetary body, sometimes referred...
io9
| 8 months ago
New evidence that the Moon's explosive birth was weirder than we thought Scientists have long believed that Earth's moon was born with a bang, in a colossal planetary collision commonly dubbed "The Big Splat." A study published in the latest issue of...
