Tag: moon formation

  • Nation & World

    How the moon came to be

    A fourth-year graduate student in the lab of Professor of Geochemistry Stein Jacobsen, Yaray Ku is working on a project aimed at understanding how the moon formed, and to do it, she’s working with actual lunar samples.

    4 minutes
    Yaya Ku researches the moon
  • 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.