Tag: space & planetary news
Map of rocky exoplanet reveals a lava world
The most detailed map of a small, rocky ‘super Earth’ to date reveals a planet almost completely covered by lava, with a molten ‘hot’ side and solid ‘cool’ side.
NASA data leads to rare discovery: Earth’s moon wandered off axis billions of years ago
A new study published today in Nature reports discovery of a rare event -- that Earth's moon slowly moved from its original axis roughly 3 billion years ago.
Moon was produced by a head-on collision between Earth and a forming planet
The moon was formed by a violent, head-on collision between the early Earth and a "planetary embryo" called Theia approximately 100 million years after the Earth formed, UCLA geochemists and colleagues report.