Originally, the hypothesis was that Theia gave the Earth a glancing blow, and the proto-Earth and Theia lost pieces ending up ...

You have probably heard that hot things expand and cold things contract. Maybe you have learned that if a lid jar is stuck too tightly for you to open it, you can run hot water over the lid.

The moon is thought to be the aftermath of a giant impact. According to a new theory, there were two giant impacts in a row, separated by about one million years, involving a Mars-sized 'Theia ...

Moon is slowly moving away from Earth at a rate of 3.8 centimetres per year. This gradual drift affects Earth’s rotation and ...

We’ve long been told that the Moon was created when a Mars-sized object named Theia smashed into Earth, hurling material into space which eventually became our beloved celestial companion.

The gigantic impact of the protoplanet Theia on Earth must therefore have taken place beforehand and not 100 million years after this calming down. According to the usual explanations, the moon ...

Before Earth and the Moon, there were proto-Earth and Theia (a roughly Mars-sized planet). The giant-impact model suggests that at some point in Earth's very early history, these two bodies collided.

Other scientists propose that after the impact all of the oxygen was able to move around in the hot vapor surrounding the Earth and moon, mixing up all the different oxygen isotopes and erasing any ...

The moon’s birth still sparks debate among scientists. Most support the “giant impact” theory involving a body named Theia. Competing ideas—like the moon splitting from Earth or forming ...

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