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

Discover how scientists have used iron isotopes to determine the likely origin of the Mars-sized planet named Theia.

If you know any bit of information about how the moon was created, new research indicates that everyone has believed wrong.

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

To our best of our understanding, the Moon formed from Earth following a colossal impact. A Mars-sized world we nicknamed ...

A new scientific study is rewriting one of the most recognized origin stories in astronomy: how the Moon was formed may not ...

Research into the formation of the moon was conducted by scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology located in Haifa. Results of ...

The moon was formed 4.5 billion years ago in a "giant impact" that left Earth with a two-hour day, according to new research. Scientists have long debated the circumstances which led to the formation ...

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

A crucial difference in the “fingerprints” of Earth and the moon confirms an explosive, interconnected past Within the first 150 million years after our solar system formed, a giant body roughly the ...