So how did our planet end up with such a special moon? The answer is that, surprisingly enough, the moon is a piece of our ...
The ancient planet, known as Theia (or sometimes Orpheus), was completely destroyed. The majority of its mass and a part of ...
We do not know for sure if Theia existed and if it collided with the young proto-Earth, but the evidence is compelling. For one, we are the only rocky planet with a substantial moon. Mercury and ...
These structures are theorized to contain remnants of Theia's materials ... the stars ‘Snowball Earth’: How volcanoes saved our planet from its deepest freeze in history ...