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A Planet Slammed Into Earth 4.5 Billion Years Ago, Forming the Moon. The Projectile May Have Been Our Neighbor
Around 4.5 billion years ago, a planet called Theia is thought to have smashed into newborn Earth. The messy collision kicked ...
About 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) below our feet, two enormous patches of strange rock sit above Earth’s core. New ...
Two mysterious blobs deep inside Earth may hold clues about the origin of life on our planet, new research finds. Deep ...
High levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide intensify climate change, but high carbon dioxide levels can also stimulate plant ...
Though it generated beautiful auroras around the world, the Gannon solar storm in 2024 was also a little dangerous.
A phenomenon previously thought to be exclusive to the Sun has been observed near Earth for the first time: magnetic ...
The models showed that these strange shapes could form when magma rises and weakens the surface in a “squishy” or partly moving lid. Instead of forming clear, global plates like Earth, Venus likely ...
This year’s ozone hole over the Antarctic ranked as the fifth smallest since 1992, according to a new report by NOAA and NASA ...
New insights into a pair of colossal, continent-sized structures 1,800 miles beneath the Earth’s surface have revealed clues ...
Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...
An international team has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the tectonic evolution of terrestrial planets.
This new understanding comes from a study by a team led by Rutgers University geodynamicist Yoshinori Miyazaki. The research ...
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