"During the early solar system's game of cosmic billiards, Earth was struck by a neighbor,” said Dauphas. “It was a lucky shot. Without the moon's steadying influence on our planet's tilt, the climate ...
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NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX captured stunning images of Earth and Moon before heading to asteroid Apophis
On September 23, 2025, NASA's OSIRIS-APEX successfully used an Earth flyby to slingshot toward its target: potentially ...
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New Evidence Points To Where Our Moon’s Parent Planet Came From
Scientists traced the Moon's parent planet Theia to the inner Solar System, solving a 4.5-billion-year mystery.
It’s been more than half a century since humans last walked on the Moon, but we’re on the verge of doing so again.
Normally," rings around a planet are created from the remnants of meteors, moons or left over planet pieces. But this is not ...
"This supports the theory that a planet collided with early Earth and the high-energy impact resulted in the formation of the moon." Some of Earth's oldest rocks buried deep in Western Australia may ...
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Flashes on the moon: CU Boulder experts explain asteroid strikes and why they matter
“Impact flashes on the moon are very common,” University of Colorado Boulder astrophysical and planetary sciences professor Paul Hayne said. “In fact, they happen more or less every night, and it’s a ...
A new study report has been published which demonstrated that shaking from moonquakes, rather than significant impacts from ...
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