It now appears increasingly like the Moon is the offspring of perhaps the single most devastating event in the history of our planet.
Three new studies into the formation of our natural satellite, each published in the journal Nature, indicate that a collision between Earth and a very similar, planet-like object set in motion the process that created our orbiting Moon. The new evidence looks set to resolve why geology of the Moon and Earth are so much more similar than other planets and moons we see elsewhere in the Solar System.
By: Michael Rundle,
