An international team has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the tectonic evolution of terrestrial planets.

Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.

This new understanding comes from a study by a team led by Rutgers University geodynamicist Yoshinori Miyazaki. The research ...

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...

Last year, the most violent geomagnetic storm to strike Earth in over two decades did more than disrupt GPS systems and ...

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 ...

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 ...

"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system.

Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth's mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades.

New research shows that Theia, the planet that collided with Earth and formed the Moon, was a rocky world born closer to the ...

Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...