A new simulation reveals an alternative explanation for the moon’s formation. The moon is thought to have formed following a collision between Earth and a Mars-sized object, called Theia.
Researchers from the University of Arizona used gravity maps and simulations to piece the Moon's history together.
Astronomers are pretty sure they know where the moon came from. In the early solar system, a Mars-sized object dubbed Theia ...
Gault referenced the Drake Equation, which extrapolates numerous chances — the chance a planet is suitable for life, the chance life develops and the evolution of sapient life — to calculate the ...
Linking analyses of the moon’s gravity field with models of its earliest evolution, University of Arizona scientists tell a ...
Planetary scientists need to find an impact simulation that can not only match the moon’s chemistry, but also how far it was from the Earth and how fast it was initially spinning. Although scientists ...
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Scientists from the University of Arizona (USA) have discovered that computer simulations combined with data from space ...
MFM simulation of the canonical Moon-Forming giant impact. Here different colors trace different components of Gaia and Theia. The lower mantle of Gaia, denoted by the dashed circle with a radius ...
ReachBot is inspired by the movement of the Harvestman spider, also known as a daddy-long-legs. The current model boasts a ...
Annular and partial solar eclipses are occurring more and more frequently than total solar eclipses, according to a ...
Because the moon formed fast and hot ... for the zones of dense titanium-rich material predicted by computer simulation models of lunar overturn. While the detection of lunar gravity anomalies ...