To make an effort and regain some type of consensus on how the moon took its form, a conference has been called at the Royal Society.

From the time the first global conference held in 1984, advancements in scientific study of samples from the moon, other planets and earth have contradicted the theory that the moon was formed as a result of a major collision between Earth and another planet named Thea.

Due to the chemical composition of the moon, its formation came from "some sort of giant impact", said Professor Alex Halliday. He was the head of the science division at Oxford.

A new research has revealed that the moon is roughly around 4.4 billion to 4.45 billion years old, 100 million years younger than earlier approximation. This was told by geochemist Richard Carlson of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

The current working hypothesis proposes that the moon was formed when a large proto-planet plowed into the early Earth. This led to creation of a major bang that sent huge amounts of rocky debris into space.

The latest discoveries along with improved methods can help scientists in determining the age of lunar rock and can create precise estimation related to age of the moon and the Earth.