Recent research suggests that Saturn's bright rings and its largest moon, Titan, may have both originated in collisions among ...

The James Webb Space Telescope measured a potential moon-forming disk encircling an exoplanet, NASA recently announced, inviting researchers to observe and study moon formation as it happens, while ...

Scientists suggest Titan formed from a giant moon collision that also may explain Saturn’s rings and strange moon orbits.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist’s impression of a moon-forming circumplanetary disk around CT Cha b, and the carbon ...

Multiple impacts on Earth might better explain our moon’s origin than a single giant impact 4.5 billion years ago – and could help solve one of its biggest mysteries. Pinning down the origin of our ...

Many of the most interesting bodies in our Solar System aren’t planets, but the moons that orbit them. They have active volcanoes, hydrocarbon oceans, geysers, and moon-wide oceans buried under icy ...

An artistic rendering of a dust and gas disk encircling the young exoplanet, CT Cha b, 625 light-years from Earth. Spectroscopic data from NASA’s JWST suggest the disk contains the raw materials for ...

How did the Moon form? Was it from a collision, as has been the longstanding theory, or could it have been captured by the Earth early in our planet’s formation? This is what a recent study published ...

The Earth’s Moon had a rough start in life. Formed from a chunk of the Earth that was lopped off during a planetary collision, it spent its early years covered by a roiling global ocean of molten ...

For the first time, the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk around a planet has been revealed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...