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What Made the Moon? New Ideas Try to Rescue a Troubled Theory

By Rebecca Boyle
August 2, 2017
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Textbooks say that the moon was formed after a Mars-size mass smashed the young Earth. But new evidence has cast doubt on that story, leaving researchers to dream up new ways to get a giant rock into orbit.

Earth scientists hope that their growing knowledge of the planet’s early history will shed light on poorly understood features seen today, from continents to geysers.
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Explorers Find Passage to Earth’s Dark Age

By Natalie Wolchover
December 22, 2016
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Geochemical signals from deep inside Earth are beginning to shed light on the planet’s first 50 million years, a formative period long viewed as inaccessible to science.


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