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The rising Earth from the perspective of the moon.

Formation of the moon brought water to Earth

May 22, 2019

Snapshots of numerical modeling of the moon’s formation by a giant impact. The central part of the image is a proto-Earth; red points indicate materials from the ocean of magma in a proto-Earth; blue points indicate the impactor materials.

Magma is the key to the moon’s makeup

May 2, 2019

Earth taken by the Apollo 8 astronauts on Dec. 22, 1968

Thank the moon for Earth’s lengthening day

June 5, 2018

Magma ocean may be responsible for the moon’s early magnetic field

April 28, 2018

Do moon phases produce big earthquakes?

January 19, 2018

Collisions after moon formation remodeled early Earth

December 5, 2017

Moon’s crust underwent resurfacing after forming from magma ocean

November 22, 2017

How a young-looking lunar volcano hides its true age

March 29, 2017

More Earth-like than moon-like

February 25, 2017

Drawn from the Deep: Earth’s Primordial Reservoir Older Than the Moon

February 7, 2017

Research helps explain formation of ringed crater on the Moon

October 30, 2016

Scientists’ finding supports moon creation hypothesis

September 27, 2016

Moon is proto-Earth’s mantle, relocated

September 12, 2016

Cataclysm at Meteor Crater: Crystal sheds light on Earth, moon, Mars

July 27, 2016

Close encounters of a tidal kind could lead to cracks on...

May 27, 2016

Squeezing out mountains, mathematically, on Jupiter’s moon Io

May 22, 2016

The moon thought to play a major role in maintaining Earth’s...

March 31, 2016

Earth’s moon wandered off axis billions of years ago

March 23, 2016

Moon was produced by a head-on collision between Earth and a...

January 30, 2016

Interior Water Not Ruled Out for Our Moon

December 29, 2015

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A stiff new layer in Earth’s mantle

March 24, 2015

Mars, too, has macroweather

November 15, 2014

Volcanic eruptions had large and persistent impacts on global hydroclimate over the last millennium

March 19, 2021

Life cycle of sulphur predicts location of valuable minerals

October 23, 2018

Genetics reveals where emperor penguins survived the last ice age

March 6, 2015

Engineering a better future for the Mississippi Delta

April 29, 2015

Moon

How magnetism could help explain Earth’s formation

One more clue to the Moon’s origin

Donwilhelmsite : New mineral from the moon could explain what happens in the Earth’s mantle

Has Earth’s oxygen rusted the Moon for billions of years?

Higher concentration of metal in Moon’s craters provides new insights to its origin