Scientists from Penn State University have proposed a radical new theory for the Moon's origin which overturns the popular ...
About 4.45 billion years ago, 150 million years after the solar system formed, Earth was hit by a Mars-size object called Theia. The collision created the moon, but debate has raged exactly what ...
New research explores if the moon was captured by Earth or formed by a collision. Scientists weigh theories, analyzing lunar ...
Earth spins on a slight incline. 4.5 billion years ago, after colliding with the protoplanet Theia, the Earth's axis eventually settled into a 23.5 degree tilt. But what if Earth had flipped by 90 ...
The most widely accepted theory today is the Giant Impact Hypothesis, which suggests that the moon was formed around 4.5 ...
Researchers at Penn State University suggest that Earth’s only satellite may have come from a “binary-exchange capture” ...
It may be part of the night sky we look up at each night, but the moon's origins remain a mystery that has left scientists ...
The object in question is called Theia. This isn’t a new theory ... If the Moon was indeed formed by the collision of an object with Earth, then it would be made from the similar sediments ...
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