If the “silicate atmosphere” theory is true, both Earth and the newly forming Moon would have been super heated after the collision, and potassium would have been evaporating from both objects.

It is inferred that an Indian plate may have accreted from several micro-plates during Precambrian time, with consequent emplacement of collision-related Bundelkhand granites. The two younger ...

Molten rain Here's how the moon formed as proposed by the new, synestia theory. A giant collision smashed into the proto-Earth, vaporizing about 10 percent of the rock and liquefying the rest.

A new scientific theory connects mysterious structures deep within Earth's mantle to a violent collision with the protoplanet Theia.

A theory that the moon formed from debris left over from a violent collision between the Earth and a Mars-size object has received a double boost in the form of two new studies. See what they say ...

A titanium signature is posing a new puzzle for the popular theory that the Moon formed when a Mars-size body smacked into Earth some 4.5 billion years ago ...