“Impact flashes on the moon are very common,” University of Colorado Boulder astrophysical and planetary sciences professor ...

The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...

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Scientists have proposed a shocking new theory for the origin of the moon, and their calculations suggest Earth once had a ...

To our best of our understanding, the Moon formed from Earth following a colossal impact. A Mars-sized world we nicknamed ...

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Earth and the planetary object that gave rise to the Moon were likely born in the same region of the solar system.

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon ...

The Planetary Defence System of the ESA earlier identified the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid. The current tally since the ESA ...

"Over time, the rays will darken to the shade of the surrounding regolith as the material is exposed to space weathering," ...

"It sounds like science fiction or the stuff of Hollywood movies." ...

At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," two movies about the ...