An international team has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the tectonic evolution of terrestrial planets.
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Earth and the Mysterious Planet Theia Were Likely Close Neighbors Before the Moon Formed
Discover how scientists have used iron isotopes to determine the likely origin of the Mars-sized planet named Theia.
Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.
Last year, the most violent geomagnetic storm to strike Earth in over two decades did more than disrupt GPS systems and ...
Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...
This new understanding comes from a study by a team led by Rutgers University geodynamicist Yoshinori Miyazaki. The research ...
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 ...
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Scientists Reveal Origins of Giant Object That Smashed Into Earth
One fateful day about 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized body called Theia collided with proto-Earth, turning both into a ...
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New Evidence Points To Where Our Moon’s Parent Planet Came From
Scientists traced the Moon's parent planet Theia to the inner Solar System, solving a 4.5-billion-year mystery.
About 4.5 billion years ago, the most momentous event in the history of Earth occurred: a huge celestial body called Theia ...
Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth's mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades.
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Earth and Theia smashed to birth the moon, but did they first start out as close neighbors?
"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system.
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