The real question, and still an open one, is whether a Taurid swarm could deliver more Tunguska-sized objects than would ...
Astrophysicists observing the collision of two neutron stars have detected the smallest black hole ever observed.
At a talk held at CERN this week, the ATLAS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) reported observing top quarks in ...
The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.
It may be part of the night sky we look up at each night, but the moon's origins remain a mystery that has left scientists ...
New research explores if the moon was captured by Earth or formed by a collision. Scientists weigh theories, analyzing lunar ...
A new study suggests Earth’s Moon may have been “captured” from a binary system, challenging the long-held impact theory and ...
Since the 1980s, the leading theory suggested that the Moon formed from a collision between Earth and the protoplanet Theia ...
Researchers at Penn State University suggest that Earth’s only satellite may have come from a “binary-exchange capture” ...
Scientists from Penn State University have proposed a radical new theory for the Moon's origin which overturns the popular ...
The most widely accepted theory today is the Giant Impact Hypothesis, which suggests that the moon was formed around 4.5 ...