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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.
New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon ...
Where did the Moon really come from? A groundbreaking new study has traced lunar origins to an inner-solar-system planet — a ...
The epic Pink Floyd album has one of the most evocative album titles of all time. But what does it actually mean? Read more about it here.
Where did the planet the size of Mars that crashed into Earth billions of years ago come from? Theia has captured the ...
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China’s ‘lunar soil bricks’ return from space in major step toward building base on the Moon
The Story Behind Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip's Reported Argument in Australia ...
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The Lost Planet That Gave Birth to the Moon May Have Been Earth’s Next-Door Neighbor
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 ...
New research suggests Earth's Moon formed from the catastrophic collision of our planet with its "sister" planet, Theia, born nearby. This "sibling" planet theory, supported by iron isotope evidence, ...
About 4.5 billion years ago, a colossal impact between the young Earth and a mysterious planetary body called Theia changed everything—reshaping Earth, forming the Moon, and scattering clues across ...
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Scientists Reveal Origins of Giant Object That Smashed Into Earth
One fateful day about 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized body called Theia collided with proto-Earth, turning both into a ...
In 2006, NASA admitted that it had lost the original recordings, prompting a three-year search by Richard Nafzger, a NASA ...
Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the evolutionary history of kissing, how moss spores fare in space, and new clues about the collision that created the moon.
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