Physicists theorize our universe may have collided with another in the past, creating the Big Bang. Level two of the ...

The most widely accepted explanation for how the Moon was formed is the giant-impact theory. It states that a Mars-size ...

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon ...

New research suggests Earth's Moon formed from the catastrophic collision of our planet with its \"sister\" planet, Theia, born nearby. This \"sibling\" p ...

Scientists traced the Moon's parent planet Theia to the inner Solar System, solving a 4.5-billion-year mystery.

A new scientific study is rewriting one of the most recognized origin stories in astronomy: how the Moon was formed may not ...

In the world of astrophysics, Stephen Hawking’s predictions about black holes have always sparked fascination and debate.

Images of the cosmos, such as the James Webb Space Telescope’s deep space snapshot, make space look chock-full of stuff. In the grand scheme of things, it is, but all those stars, galaxies, planets, ...

We'll cut right to the chase: This video of Stanford Professor Andrei Linde finding out about yesterday's big discovery of "smoking gun" evidence of cosmic inflation (the "first tremors of the big ...

What happens when two rare ring galaxies collide? They form an infinity symbol—or the face of a cosmic owl, depending on how you look at it. The James Webb Space Telescope has helped two international ...

The schematic artistic view of the Cosmic Owl, consisting of twin collisional ring galaxies with binary AGN. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.10058 An international team of astronomers ...