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 ...

A town in the Austrian Alps might not seem like the most conducive place to come up with daring space missions. But, for the ...

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 ...

For nearly 40 years, scientists have generally agreed that Earth's Moon formed from debris after a massive collision with our ...