Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...
New research shows that Theia, the planet that collided with Earth and formed the Moon, was a rocky world born closer to the ...
Searching for life on other planets requires more than just measuring their distances from their stars. A future NASA ...
Simulations reveal that Jupiter’s rapid growth disrupted the early solar system, creating rings where new planetesimals ...
There are no confirmed exomoons, moons orbiting distant exoplanets in other solar systems. There are a few candidates, but ...
Theia impact, with the Sun in the background, illustrating the idea that Theia originated close to the Sun. Image ...
The Planetary Defence System of the ESA earlier identified the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid. The current tally since the ESA ...
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 ...
Water isn't just delivered to planets by comets and asteroids — it can also be forged as worlds form, a new study finds.