New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon ...
About 4.5 billion years ago, the most momentous event in the history of Earth occurred: a huge celestial body called Theia ...
Last year, the most violent geomagnetic storm to strike Earth in over two decades did more than disrupt GPS systems and ...
Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...
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"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system.
To see, Fujita’s team turned to Physcomitrium patens, a well-studied species moss commonly called spreading earthmoss. They ...
In the current issue of the journal Science, researchers determine the possible composition of Theia. The impactor’s ...
Scientists may finally be closing in on the origins of two colossal, mysterious structures buried nearly 1,800 miles inside ...
A machine-learning breakthrough could lift the veil on Earth’s early history—and supercharge the search for alien life ...
Cimate scientists are more certain than ever that humans are changing the climate – but there are signs of hope on the ...
The moss was attached to the International Space Station, fully exposed to the harsh environment of the cosmos. Not only did ...