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Thailand and Cambodia have reaffirmed their shaky ceasefire after days of fighting along their border. The ceasefire, reached ...
"Up to 10% of the lunar ejecta could reach Earth within days," said Paul Wiegert, a planetary scientist and lead author of ...
If Asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the Moon in 2032, it would be the largest impact in about 5,000 years, according to a new analysis. Researchers say the Moon debris would threaten spacecraft in ...
If Asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the Moon, it would create a crater more than half a mile in diameter (1 km), becoming the largest impact in about 5,000 years, according to the study. Current ...
An extraordinary celestial event could unfold in the night sky in less than a decade if an asteroid passing Earth collides with the Moon. The impact of asteroid 2024 YR4 into the lunar surface would ...
Visible on the planet itself is a dark patch near the top, marking the frigid northern polar cap, where temperatures dip to ...
Think Earth has only one moon? Think again! Scientists have discovered that our planet is constantly surrounded by minimoons ...
When A League of Their Own was released in 1992, it brought attention to a women's professional baseball league that had ...
The U.S. government's "One, Big Beautiful Bill" Act finds funding for Artemis and Lunar Gateway, but nearly half of NASA's science missions are on the chopping block ahead of the 2026 budget.
While asteroids have diverse resources, including some not found on the moon, space rocks alone may not be able to support a robust space mining industry.
Every planet, moon, asteroid, and life form orbiting the sun shares a common heritage, built from the same materials about 4.6 billion years ago. But interstellar visitors are true outsiders.
The September 2022 collision of a spacecraft into the asteroid moon Dimorphos completely changed the space rock’s orbit.