In the current issue of the journal Science, researchers determine the possible composition of Theia. The impactor’s ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, Earth had a violent neighbor. A young, still-forming planet named Theia slammed into our world ...

The new approach looks at the distribution of molecular fragments in material, allowing for broad surveys in degraded ...

"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system.

Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, the most momentous event in the history of Earth occurred: a huge celestial body called Theia ...

Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...

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This collision was responsible for more than just creating the moon — it also affected the shape, mass and composition of the Earth. However, new research from the journal Scien ...

Tipping elements of the Earth system should be considered global commons, researchers argue. Global commons cannot -- as they currently do -- only include the parts of the planet outside of national ...

An international team has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the tectonic evolution of terrestrial planets.