Melting Antarctic ice reveals rocky peaks that release iron, which drifts into the ocean and helps tiny plants absorb carbon ...
The story of how the Moon came to be has always carried a touch of mystery. Picture the young Solar System as a restless place where new worlds grew from swirling gas, dust, and rock. In that chaotic ...
Weary of being captive to geopolitics, car companies are looking for ways to replace powerful rare-earth magnets in electric ...
By measuring iron isotopes in Moon rocks and meteorites, researchers determined Theia probably formed closer to the Sun than ...
A Swedish plano-convex ingot once thought to be from the Bronze Age was revealed through chemical and isotopic testing to ...
If you know any bit of information about how the moon was created, new research indicates that everyone has believed wrong.
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 ...
Where did the planet the size of Mars that crashed into Earth billions of years ago come from? Theia has captured the ...
It’s a violent, elegant theory for how Earth got its moon. But many questions about this moon-making cataclysm remain.
New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon ...