Oxygen isotope identity of the Earth and Moon with implications for the formation of the Moon and source of volatiles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2024; 121 (52) DOI: 10.1073 ...
Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study found that oxygen-17 isotopes on the moon closely match Earth's. This finding disputes earlier ideas that the moon's ...
An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.