![This artist's rendering shows the hot, molten moon emerging from a synestia, a giant spinning donut of vaporized rock. Image by Sarah Stewart/UC Davis based on NASA rendering. Synestia illustration](/sites/g/files/dgvnsk10716/files/styles/sf_landscape_16x9/public/images/article/moon-sequence-c2.png?h=d73eda53&itok=_3f3RxzB)
A New Explanation For the Moon's Origins
Research led by Professor Sarah Stewart and graduate student Simon Lock shows how the Earth and moon could have formed from a giant donut of vaporized rock called a synestia, a new type of planetary object proposed by Stewart and Lock. Read more at UC Davis News.