About 4.5 billion years ago, Earth had a violent neighbor. A young, still-forming planet named Theia slammed into our world ...
Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of Earth’s mantle and ejecting a huge debris disk that later formed the moon.
In 2000, scientists stumbled upon a scene beneath the sea that could have been taken from a science fiction movie: an underwater metropolis. The hydrothermal vent field’s massive structures earned the ...
As the Earth's crust shifted and groaned over millions of years, something extraordinary happened beneath the surface. Deep inside the planet, hot rock began rising. Over time, this invisible force ...
Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the gloom. Their creamy carbonate walls and columns appear ghostly blue in the ...
Theia was part of the inner Solar System, and was formed closer to the Sun than Earth, a new study has found.
The story of “The Lost Colony" of Roanoke is one that's been told for generations. But some say the colony was never actually lost. Scott Dawson, owner of the Lost Colony Museum on Hatteras Island, ...