Everything we thought we knew about the moon's origins may be wrong, new research suggests. Ever since we landed the first humans on the moon, scientists have thought that our lone lunar companion ...

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Among the inner solar system, Earth is the only planet that experiences plate tectonics. A new study, using convection models, shows that Earth’s collision with the protoplanet Theia some 4.5 billion ...

How do pedestrians behave in a large crowd? How do they avoid collisions? How can their paths be modeled? A new approach developed by mathematicians provides answers to these questions. We all know ...

Martin Brundle has suggested what McLaren’s consequences for Lando Norris could look like. Norris revealed ahead of this ...

Cataclysmic collisions between space rocks have helped explain some of the solar system’s biggest mysteries, from how the moon formed to how Uranus got its lopsided rotation. But convincing evidence ...

Scientists on the lookout for subtle disturbances in the fabric of space-time have detected the signal from a cataclysmic collision between two black holes that lie some 3 billion light-years away, ...

Earth's moon formed inside a cloud of molten rock, and may have done so before our planet itself formed, a new theory suggests. Scientists call such a cloud a synestia, a doughnut-shaped ring of ...

SXS—Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes—is an ongoing scientific collaboration that has been generating simulations of dramatic ...

Karen Read's defense has called the expert believed to be its final witness as her trial in the death of Boston cop John O'Keefe, which began back in April, nears a close. Prosecutors allege that Read ...

A long-unsolved case of geological assault might now be resolved, thanks to the efforts of two University graduates. For years, geologists have been mystified by the formation of the Rocky Mountains, ...

We all know the situation: You walk across a square and another pedestrian is walking towards you. Now if neither of you changes course, a collision is inevitable. For a long time, researchers have ...