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A long lost planet once orbited next to Earth, Apollo-era moon rocks suggest
Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...
One of seven Earth-sized planets, TRAPPIST-1d, caught the attention of NASA researchers and is one of the promising planets ...
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A Planet Slammed Into Earth 4.5 Billion Years Ago, Forming the Moon. The Projectile May Have Been Our Neighbor
Little is known about the long-destroyed moon-forming planet, Theia. But it may have been born in the inner solar system—just like Earth—a new study suggests ...
Theia' is a long-vanished world, a planet-sized body thought to have smashed into the early Earth and that helped to form the ...
An international team has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the tectonic evolution of terrestrial planets.
Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and influencing their tectonics. New findings suggest these violent impacts ...
Moon’s precursor planet, Theia, disappeared billions ago, leaving scientists no direct chemical evidence to support the ...
SwRI-led paper summarizes notable progress in understanding the evolution of the terrestrial planets
A new SwRI-led paper highlights the scientific progress made in understanding the evolution of terrestrial planets, including the effects of late large impacts on pre-existing modes of tectonics. For ...
It would be nearly impossible to make the Earth as inhospitable to life as the planet Mars — not that we aren’t trying. And yet, despite the red planet’s toxic soil, harmful solar radiation, and utter ...
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