Titanium paternity test fingers Earth as moon's sole parent
Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 14:30
in Astronomy & Space
A new chemical analysis of lunar material collected by Apollo astronauts in the 1970s conflicts with the widely held theory that a giant collision between Earth and a Mars-sized object gave birth to the moon 4.5 billion years ago.
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