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A Planet Slammed Into Earth 4.5 Billion Years Ago, Forming the Moon. The Projectile May Have Been Our Neighbor
Around 4.5 billion years ago, a planet called Theia is thought to have smashed into newborn Earth. The messy collision kicked ...
Space.com on MSN
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 ...
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The Moon Was Born From Earth's Twin Planet
Did Earth Have a Twin That Formed the Moon? :globe_showing_Europe-Africa: Billions of years ago, our planet may have collided ...
Earth and the planetary object that gave rise to the Moon were likely born in the same region of the solar system.
ZME Science on MSN
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 ...
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 ...
Where did the planet the size of Mars that crashed into Earth billions of years ago come from? Theia has captured the ...
ScienceAlert on MSN
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 ...
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.
It’s been more than half a century since humans last walked on the Moon, but we’re on the verge of doing so again.
After cutting ties with the Heritage Foundation, an antisemitism task force formed to address what they described as left-wing antisemitism has reformed independently and broadened its focus.
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