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A long lost planet once orbited next to Earth, Apollo-era moon rocks suggest
Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...
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A Planet Slammed Into Earth 4.5 Billion Years Ago, Forming the Moon. The Projectile May Have Been Our Neighbor
Little is known about the long-destroyed moon-forming planet, Theia. But it may have been born in the inner solar system—just like Earth—a new study suggests ...
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See it: NASA's asteroid-chasing spacecraft slingshots past Earth
It's not often that a deep-space robotic explorer swings back by its home planet, but NASA's OSIRIS-APEX mission did just ...
A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...
Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...
An international team has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the tectonic evolution of terrestrial planets.
A newly discovered, faint radio emission, the Hectometric Continuum, emerges only after sunset and pulses through Earth's ...
Reporting from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Ministerial Council for 2025, held in Bremen last week, IFLScience reveals how ESA is stepping up and doubling down on its commitment to monitoring our ...
Last year, the most violent geomagnetic storm to strike Earth in over two decades did more than disrupt GPS systems and ...
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Scientists Reveal Origins of Giant Object That Smashed Into Earth
One fateful day about 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized body called Theia collided with proto-Earth, turning both into a ...
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 ...
Chinese researchers have discovered that interstitial carbon in iron-carbon alloys behaves in a superionic, liquid-like state under Earth’s core pressure and temperature conditions. Beneath Earth’s ...
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