Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...
They went through the isotope mixtures in Earth and lunar rocks instead of using highly technical models. They dabbled in ...
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 ...
Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...
New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon ...
Theia' is a long-vanished world, a planet-sized body thought to have smashed into the early Earth and that helped to form the ...
About 4.5 billion years ago, the most momentous event in the history of Earth occurred: a huge celestial body called Theia ...
Atoms found deep inside our planet argue that parts of “proto-Earth,” the early version of our planet, still survive inside ...
"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system.
Earth and the planetary object that gave rise to the Moon were likely born in the same region of the solar system.
Scientists traced the Moon's parent planet Theia to the inner Solar System, solving a 4.5-billion-year mystery.
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research led the study. They examined iron isotopes in 15 Earth ...