Tag: Collision

  • Nation & World

    A new view of the moon

    Harvard grad student Simon Lock is the lead author of a study that challenges conventional wisdom on how the moon formed.

    4 minutes
    Visualization of the moon emerging from a cloud of vaporized rock.
  • Nation & World

    Separated after birth

    Researchers at Harvard University and the SETI Institute are proposing a new spin on the giant-impact model to match the observed composition of the moon and its relationship to Earth.

    4 minutes