"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 ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research led the study. They examined iron isotopes in 15 Earth ...

Earth and the planetary object that gave rise to the Moon were likely born in the same region of the solar system.

Our Moon is slowly drifting away from Earth, not just due to tidal friction as previously thought. New research suggests ancient planetary impacts and ...

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 ...

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon ...

To our best of our understanding, the Moon formed from Earth following a colossal impact. A Mars-sized world we nicknamed ...

New research shows that Theia, the planet that collided with Earth and formed the Moon, was a rocky world born closer to the ...

A thorough investigation published in May 2023 found that the inner core of the Moon is, in fact, a solid ball with a density ...

A new study confirms the Moon has a solid metal inner core surrounded by a molten outer layer, reshaping our understanding of ...

In 2006, NASA admitted that it had lost the original recordings, prompting a three-year search by Richard Nafzger, a NASA ...