Consider an urn model where at each step one of q colors is sampled according to some probability distribution and a ball of that color is placed in an urn. The distribution of assigning balls to urns ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The formation of the moon has long remained a mystery, but new studies support the theory that ...

Despite being our planet's closest neighbour, scientists have been grappling with the mystery of our moon's origin for hundreds of years. Since the 1980s, experts have assumed that our lunar satellite ...

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 ...