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New Evidence Points To Where Our Moon’s Parent Planet Came From
Scientists traced the Moon's parent planet Theia to the inner Solar System, solving a 4.5-billion-year mystery.
If you know any bit of information about how the moon was created, new research indicates that everyone has believed wrong.
Discover Magazine on MSN
Earth and the Mysterious Planet Theia Were Likely Close Neighbors Before the Moon Formed
Discover how scientists have used iron isotopes to determine the likely origin of the Mars-sized planet named Theia.
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN
A Planet Slammed Into Earth 4.5 Billion Years Ago, Forming the Moon. The Projectile May Have Been Our Neighbor
Little is known about the long-destroyed moon-forming planet, Theia. But it may have been born in the inner solar system—just like Earth—a new study suggests ...
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, ...
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It Seems Absurd, But You Could Line Up Every Planet In The Solar System Between Earth And The Moon
Space has a knack for bending our sense of scale. The Moon feels close enough to touch—after all, we see its craters with ...
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 ...
CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — Boeing announced Tuesday that it plans to lay off about 400 of its employees who are working on NASA’s Artemis moon rocket. “To align with revisions to the Artemis ...
According to the leading theory of how the Earth-Moon system formed (the Giant Impact Hypothesis), a Mars-sized object (named ...
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