New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon ...
Did you know that the Moon's mother made sacrifices to give birth to it? Around 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized planetary ...
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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.
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 ...
Earth and the planetary object that gave rise to the Moon were likely born in the same region of the solar system.
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research led the study. They examined iron isotopes in 15 Earth ...
Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles within this cloud collided and clumped together, driven by gravity and ...
The sun's gravity will pull the moon farther away from Earth than it's been in over five years on Nov. 19, though it'll be ...
Astronomers recently detected a stray quasi-moon in our planet’s orbit, but it's hardly the first stowaway to hang out around ...
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