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 ...

More information: Yu Zhang et al, Superionic iron hydride shapes ultralow-velocity zones at Earth's core–mantle boundary, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1073 ...

These structures are theorized to contain remnants of Theia's materials, offering valuable insights into the ancient collision. The presence of large low-velocity provinces in Earth's mantle ...

There's been some new research about an ancient planet - called Theia - that experts think helped form the Earth we know today. Scientists think that Theia crashed into Earth billions of years ago ...