Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist’s impression of the planet Theia colliding with ancient Earth to create the moon. (MPS/Mark A. Garlick) Roughly four and a ...
'Theia' is a long-vanished world, a planet-sized body thought to have smashed into the early Earth and that helped to form the moon. A new study has now analysed ancient lunar and terrestrial rocks to ...
(CNN) — Scientists widely agree that an ancient planet likely smashed into Earth as it was forming billions of years ago, spewing debris that coalesced into the moon that decorates our night sky today ...
Scientists widely agree that an ancient planet likely smashed into Earth as it was forming billions of years ago, spewing debris that coalesced into the moon that decorates our night sky today. The ...
Scientists think a planet may have crashed into Earth 4.5 billion years ago, creating the moon. This alien planet, Theia, was thought to have completely disappeared in the collision. A new study ...
About 4.5 billion years ago, the most momentous event in the history of our planet occurred: a huge celestial body called Theia collided with the young Earth. How the collision unfolded and what ...
About 4.5 billion years ago, Earth had a violent neighbor. A young, still-forming planet named Theia slammed into our world with enough force to melt vast portions of its mantle and scatter a huge ...
There may be chunks of an ancient planet trapped in Earth’s mantle. The prevailing theory of the moon’s formation is called the giant impact hypothesis, in which a Mars-sized object called Theia ...
Researchers have long suspected that the Moon was formed after a Mars-sized protoplanet, dubbed Theia, smashed into the primordial Earth some 4.5 billion years ago. The literally Earth-shattering ...
Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of Earth’s mantle and ejecting a huge debris disk that later formed the moon.
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