Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research led the study. They examined iron isotopes in 15 Earth ...
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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.
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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Theia And Earth - The Cosmic Collision That Birthed The Moon Were Once Neighbours, Finds New Study
The most widely accepted explanation for how the Moon was formed is the giant-impact theory. It states that a Mars-size ...
Astronomers recently detected a stray quasi-moon in our planet’s orbit, but it's hardly the first stowaway to hang out around ...
As moons go, ours is a good one. While the Moon only has a mass of around 1.2 percent that of the Earth, that’s huge compared to the other moons of the solar system. The Earth is also the largest of ...
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Earth and the Mysterious Planet Theia Were Likely Close Neighbors Before the Moon Formed
Discover how scientists have used iron isotopes to determine the likely origin of the Mars-sized planet named Theia.
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