Fragments of Planet Theia appear to be buried deep beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean. And now more evidence has been found deep in the moon via NASA s GRAIL craft
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At a time when Earth was still being formed, a planetary body since dubbed Theia slammed into our planet. Upon impact, it broke apart, sending a huge amount of material into orbit around Earth material that eventually coalesced into the Moon.
Moon-sized "blobs" of dense material near Earth s core first discovered in the 1980s may be the remnants of an ancient planet, Theia, that collided with Earth to form the moon, according to new research.