This meant that both celestial bodies were neighbors before the collision took place. To support this hypothesis, researchers ...
Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...
New modeling of the early solar system is reshaping the familiar story of how the Moon formed, suggesting that Earth and the ...
Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...
"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system.
About 4.5 billion years ago, a colossal impact between the young Earth and a mysterious planetary body called Theia changed everything—reshaping Earth, forming the Moon, and scattering clues across ...
About 4.5 billion years ago, the most momentous event in the history of Earth occurred: a huge celestial body called Theia ...
New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon ...
If you know any bit of information about how the moon was created, new research indicates that everyone has believed wrong.
Scientists traced the Moon's parent planet Theia to the inner Solar System, solving a 4.5-billion-year mystery.
Earth and the planetary object that gave rise to the Moon were likely born in the same region of the solar system.
According to researchers, the composition of a planet or celestial body holds the entire story of its formation and origin.