An international team has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the tectonic evolution of terrestrial planets.
In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that ...
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New Evidence Points To Where Our Moon’s Parent Planet Came From
By measuring iron isotopes in Moon rocks and meteorites, researchers determined Theia probably formed closer to the Sun than ...
A clear look at the discovery of 40,000 near-Earth asteroids, how scientists track them, and the missions working to keep our ...
Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.
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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.
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, 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 ...
Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...
According to researchers, the composition of a planet or celestial body holds the entire story of its formation and origin.
Snapshots from six computer simulations illustrating the distinct tectonic regimes of terrestrial planets, including the newly discovered ...
Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos wants to move industry off Earth to save the planet. Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, wants to move ...
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