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

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

Two mysterious blobs deep inside Earth may hold clues about the origin of life on our planet, new research finds. Deep ...

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Scientists traced the Moon's parent planet Theia to the inner Solar System, solving a 4.5-billion-year mystery.

If you’ve seen any of the “Ice Age” animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don’t know the real ice age. It was an ...

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 ...

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...

This new understanding comes from a study by a team led by Rutgers University geodynamicist Yoshinori Miyazaki. The research ...

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

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