Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...

The lack of clarity regarding the collision and the object that Earth collided with raised many questions, but they were ...

"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system.

Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, the most momentous event in the history of Earth occurred: a huge celestial body called Theia ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, a colossal impact between the young Earth and a mysterious planetary body called Theia changed everything—reshaping Earth, forming the Moon, and scattering clues across ...

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon ...

Earth and the planetary object that gave rise to the Moon were likely born in the same region of the solar system.

Scientists traced the Moon's parent planet Theia to the inner Solar System, solving a 4.5-billion-year mystery.

Theia' is a long-vanished world, a planet-sized body thought to have smashed into the early Earth and that helped to form the ...

This collision was responsible for more than just creating the moon — it also affected the shape, mass and composition of the Earth. However, new research from the journal Scien ...

According to researchers, the composition of a planet or celestial body holds the entire story of its formation and origin.