About 4.5 billion years ago, a colossal impact between the young Earth and a mysterious planetary body called Theia changed ...

It’s a violent, elegant theory for how Earth got its moon. But many questions about this moon-making cataclysm remain.

Earth and the planetary object that gave rise to the Moon were likely born in the same region of the solar system.

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...

Daichi Fujii from the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan captured a meteor impact the moon with multiple telescopes. Credit: ...

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon ...

The Moon’s surface has always looked silent and static, yet its rocks carry a record of a surprisingly active magnetic past.

Earth has picked up a new traveling companion – an asteroid named 2025 PN7 that now moves through space in step with us. This ...

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The Cave Trail is a family-friendly hike within Idaho's Craters of the Moon. Just bring a dose of courage—you may feel ...

Kim Kardashian said on the latest episode The Kardashians that she thinks the famed 1969 moon landing actually "didn’t happen" There is a long, long, long list of fact-checks debunking various false ...

The object is called 2025 PN7, and it was spotted on Aug. 2, 2025, by the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii. Even though it was just discovered, earlier data shows it's been in this unusual orbit for ...