An animation by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines of its 2022 spacecraft landing on the moon has been shared on social media by people who say the video is proof that the landing was faked ...

This animation from NASA shows a simulation of how our Moon was formed during the collision. Scientists guess that the Moon formed this way because they’ve found a type of rock called basalt in ...

We already know a decent amount about how planets form, but moon formation is another process entirely, and one we're not as ...

The conventional explanation for the moon's formation is that an enormous rock smashed into the nascent Earth and created it as a result. A new theory challenges the particulars of how events may ...

A reanalysis of lunar rock has pushed back the age of the moon by 40 million years. This means it formed at least 4.46 billion years ago. Scientists think the moon came into existence after a Mars ...

Early interactions with the Earth may have heated up the Moon and caused it to remelt, producing new lunar rocks and erasing old craters.

However, the moon was once much closer to Earth. The moon formed about 4.5 billion years ago, likely in the aftermath of a giant collision between a Mars-size rock and the newborn Earth.

The analysis found that the crystal formed 4.46 billion years ago—40 million years earlier than the previously confirmed oldest crystal found on the moon.