Early Earth's oceans of magma may have accelerated the moon's departure
Each day, as the Earth turns, the moon tugs upon the oceans of the world, causing the rise and fall of tides. As a result, ...
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Simulation of Theia's collision with Earth (VIDEO)
A detailed simulation of Theia crashing into Earth. While the collision was violent, it was not energetic enough to melt the Earth's lower mantle -- meaning that remnants of Theia could be ...
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Earth tilted 31.5 inches, a study finds. So whose fault is that? Humans, of course.
It's believed that when the Earth was young, "something big," about the size of the planet Mars, known as "Theia," hit it, according to NASA. The impact was so massive that it threw our planet off ...
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Detailed simulation reveals new explanation for the moon's formation
The moon is thought to have formed following a collision between Earth and a Mars-sized object, called Theia. But now Jacob Kegerreis at Durham University’s Institute for Computational Cosmology ...
How Did Mars Get Its Moons? NASA Study Sheds More Light On Their Mysterious Origin
To uncover the truth about the origins of these moons, scientists are looking forward to the Mars Moons eXploration (MMX) ...
NASA project NEOWISE ends after cataloging objects around Earth for over a decade
NASA's NEOWISE mission contributed to planetary defense efforts with its research to catalog near-Earth objects.
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‘Forget everything you knew’: Scientists reveal the Moon may have been ‘captured, not created’
The dominant idea since the 1980s was a massive impact with a protoplanet named Theia ... but Earth’s tides gradually tamed it, bringing it to its present near-circular path.
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Jupiter killed Earth's sister Theia, but helped in giving birth to our Moon: Study
Near India': Earth swallowed our 6th ocean, leaving a giant gravity anomaly spanning 3.1 million sq. km 'Ghost Rider on Moon': NASA to launch Firefly Aerospace's Lunar lander in January 2025 '6 ...