Tens of kilometers above Earth's surface, high-energy particles from outer space constantly strike the atmosphere, creating ...

Estimating things that exist is generally easy, but when it comes to estimating things that do not exist, it’s more difficult. This is something physicists from Poland and the UK are well aware of. To ...

A detailed simulation of Theia crashing into Earth. While the collision was violent, it was not energetic enough to melt the Earth's lower mantle -- meaning that remnants of Theia could be preserved, ...

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An impact with a protoplanet called Theia 4.5 billion years ago seems to have left remnants deep inside Earth For decades, scientists have been baffled by two large, mysterious blobs in Earth’s mantle ...