They went through the isotope mixtures in Earth and lunar rocks instead of using highly technical models. They dabbled in ...
Space has a knack for bending our sense of scale. The Moon feels close enough to touch—after all, we see its craters with nothing but our eyes. Yet, that 238,855-mile gap between Earth and its lunar ...
Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...
Though it generated beautiful auroras around the world, the Gannon solar storm in 2024 was also a little dangerous.
In the upcoming issue of the journal Science, researchers determine the possible composition of Theia, the body that collied with Earth 4.5 billion years ago thus creating the Moon. The impactor’s ...
While the feds idled, an interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS was barnstorming the solar system, at a speed that reached 153 ...
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 ...
A large radio galaxy study finds our solar system moves faster than theory predicts, raising new questions about how matter ...
Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...