Our Moon was formed from a violent collision that occurred around 4.5 billion years ago. And the giant body that smashed into the Earth, birthing the planet’s natural satellite, was named Theia. A new ...
Scientists proposed a novel idea on Wednesday that could solve two of the world's mysteries at once — one that passes over our heads every night, and one that sits far below our feet. The first ...
Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation. Initially, the planet was barren and inhospitable, missing water and ...
WASHINGTON, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Seismologists have recognized since the 1970s that two mysterious continent-sized blobs reside in the deepest part of Earth's mantle, one under Africa and the other under ...
New research suggests Earth's Moon formed from the catastrophic collision of our planet with its "sister" planet, Theia, born nearby. This "sibling" planet theory, supported by iron isotope evidence, ...
New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon, came from closer to the sun. Artist’s impression of the collision between ...
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