Over 4.6 billion years ago, the early Earth emerged from a swirling disk of gas and dust encircling the young sun. This ...

According to a new theory, there were two giant impacts in a row, separated by about one million years, involving a Mars-sized 'Theia' and proto-Earth. In this image, the proposed hit-and-run ...

also known as the “moon-forming impact,” was so large that—in addition to adding lots of material to the Earth—there was enough energy to vaporize some of the rock and metal from both the proto-Earth ...

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They added: “Here we show that LLVPs may represent buried relics of Theia mantle material (TMM) that was preserved in proto-Earth’s mantle after the Moon-forming giant impact. “Our canonical ...

By observing the anomalies in the Earth's mantle and comparing them to matter surrounding them, the researchers suggested ...

Scientists widely think that Moon was formed in a giant impact where a Mars-sized world, dubbed Theia, dealt the proto-Earth a glancing blow soon after the formation of the solar system.