Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...
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 ...
About 4.5 billion years ago, Earth had a violent neighbor. A young, still-forming planet named Theia slammed into our world with enough force to melt vast portions of its mantle and scatter a huge ...
Water isn't just delivered to planets by comets and asteroids — it can also be forged as worlds form, a new study finds. For decades, scientists have debated the origin of Earth's water. One ...
Scientists have finally confirmed a powerful coronal mass ejection from another star, using LOFAR radio data paired with ...
Scientists may have discovered a dwarf planet far beyond Neptune — an unearthing that may disprove a longstanding theory about the possibility of a giant ninth planet. The dwarf planet's existence ...
NASA has finally published several observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS that were taken during the long government ...
This week's science news was led by a spate of climate stories that were as worrying as they were fascinating. Topping the bill are microbes that were woken up after lying frozen in the Alaskan ...
A coalition led by the Planetary Society has voiced its support for Jared Isaacman, President Donald Trump's pick to lead ...