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.
This animation is an artist’s concept of Loki Patera, a lava lake on Jupiter’s moon Io, made using data from the JunoCam ...
Linking analyses of the moon’s gravity field with models of its earliest evolution, University of Arizona scientists tell a ...
Jupiter's moon, Io, is simply littered with volcanoes. NASA's Juno spacecraft has got some great close-ups and other data on ...
A new simulation ... Lunar Glass Shows Moon Asteroid ... Global Map of Lunar Hydrogen: Data Confirms Role Water Played in Moon's Formation July 20, 2022 — Using data collected over two decades ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rocks on Earth, similarly, seem to have formed into a proper crust at about 218 million years. A 2022 simulation of the giant impact that created the moon. Credit: NASA / Durham University / Jacob ...
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 ...
Scientists from the University of Arizona (USA) have discovered that computer simulations combined with data from space ...
After the first 3 billion miles of New Horizons probe's journey to Pluto in 2015, a new study finally reveals the secret ...