Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world's telescopes ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

A collision that changed everything Around 3.8 billion years ago, an asteroid or comet crashed into the Moon near its south pole. The impact, happening at an extremely high speed, created two huge ...

Scientists found that an asteroid impact carved two massive canyons on the moon in minutes. High-speed debris helped shape ...

The object that struck the moon is estimated to have been about 15 miles (25 km) in diameter, larger than the asteroid that struck ... still bears these scars on its surface while Earth does ...

A vast impact crater near the moon’s south pole was formed by an asteroid moving at more than ... and straight canyons that splay out from its centre were formed in less than 10 minutes by ...

(AP) — New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago ... The relationship between the White House and its press corps ...

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To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

The asteroid, which is about 33 feet (10 meters) wide, does not pose a hazard to Earth, but its orbit around the sun ... of rock broken off from the moon's surface and ejected into space after ...