Earth’s Essential Elements for Life Probably Came from Another Planet0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 28, 2019
Planetary researchers believe that our Moon was created more than 4.4 billion years ago in a catastrophic collision between proto-Earth and a hypothetical planet-sized body known as Theia. According to new research, our planet received the bulk of its carbon, nitrogen, sulfur and other life-essential elements from that planetary collision.