Source of Snowball Earth solved

Traces of meteoric iron in the Villena Treasure

A study published in the journal Prehistory Works, indicates that two objects sampled from the Villena Treasure were smithed using meteoric iron.

POSSIBLE TRACES OF PROTOPLANET FOUND IN EARTH’S MANTLE

In a study of the Earth’s mantle, scientists have identified two compositionally distinct continent-sized anomalies which could be traces of a protoplanet which impacted with Earth during its early formation.

THE MOON IS 40 MILLION YEARS OLDER THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT

According to the giant-impact hypothesis (also known as the Theia Impact), the moon was formed when a giant object such as a protoplanet crashed into the Earth when the solar system was still young.