Our Moon was formed from a violent collision that occurred around 4.5 billion years ago. And the giant body that smashed into the Earth, birthing the planet’s natural satellite, was named Theia. A new ...

The history of Earth is written on the great tablets of tectonic plates. The motions of plates shaped land masses, formed ...

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 ...

A planet-forming disk with more water than all of Earth's oceans has been discovered. The disk, which is located in the constellation Taurus, is 450 light-years away from Earth. Astronomers used the ...

Earth's first continents may have emerged from the planet's primordial oceans much earlier than we thought, just six hundred million years after the planet formed, new research suggests. The ...

A study published in Science Advances demonstrates, through experiments conducted at very high pressure and high temperature at the Institute of Earth Physics of Paris (IPGP), that ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon, came from closer to the sun. Artist’s impression of the collision between ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Immediately after the proto-Earth was formed, the Lambda luminosity started pumping heat into the core. This gave rise to a heated equatorial belt in the outer core and the two antipodal proto-LLVPs.

Remnants of a liquid layer of magma near Earth's core, formed in the first few hundred million years of the planet's history, may still persist today as odd anomalies in the mantle. When you purchase ...