Deep within Earth’s mantle, scientists have uncovered surprising evidence that traces of the planet’s early form,proto-Earth, ...
Apollo samples provide evidence: Researchers analyzed Moon rocks brought back by the Apollo missions and, for the first time, ...
"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system.
Discover how scientists have used iron isotopes to determine the likely origin of the Mars-sized planet named Theia.
Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...
In the current issue of the journal Science, researchers determine the possible composition of Theia. The impactor’s ...
Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...
About 4.5 billion years ago, the most momentous event in the history of Earth occurred: a huge celestial body called Theia ...
"These are not random oddities. They are fingerprints of Earth's earliest history." The post Scientists Say Huge Structures ...
Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...
Earth’s surface environment hosts large reservoirs of hydrogen (H, mainly in the form of water, H2O), nitrogen (in atmospheric N2) and carbon (mainly in carbonate rocks). H, N and C are sometimes ...