Several different formation theories for the moon have been proposed by scientists, The story that is best supported by all the available data, however, is that the moon formed during a giant impact ...

These structures are theorized to contain remnants of Theia's materials, offering valuable insights into the ancient collision. The presence of large low-velocity provinces in Earth's mantle ...

There's been some new research about an ancient planet - called Theia - that experts think helped form the Earth we know today. Scientists think that Theia crashed into Earth billions of years ago ...

"If this were the case, Theia would be part of the Earth's core today, and the Moon would have formed from ejected material from the Earth's mantle. This would explain the similarity in the ...

More information: Yu Zhang et al, Superionic iron hydride shapes ultralow-velocity zones at Earth's core–mantle boundary, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1073 ...