Earth lost 40% mass during formation
Analysing a mixture of earth samples and meteorites, the scientists shed new light on the sequence of events that led to the creation of our home planet.
Sep 28, 2017, 16:50 PM ISTBizarre discovery! Scientists say Earth was a 'donut-shaped' mass of hot, vaporised rock
Current theories of planet formation hold that rocky planets such as the Earth, Mars and Venus formed early in the existence of our solar system as smaller objects collided with each other.
May 23, 2017, 23:48 PM IST