NASA says asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no risk of hitting the Moon in 2032. In a March 5 update, the agency said new James Webb Space Telescope observations had refined the object’s orbit enough to ...

The impact crater was formed in 2024 when an object the size of a multistory building crashed into our lunar companion. The resulting divot is about 728 feet wide and 141 feet deep ...

On December 27th, 2024, astronomers detected a fast-moving asteroid on a trajectory that could bring it dangerously close to Earth by 2032, and now it's slipping beyond reach for years. With a 1-in-48 ...

Sometime between April 11 and May 22, 2024, a comet or asteroid roughly the height of a three- to six-story building smashed into the Moon, leaving a crater 728 feet (222 meters) wide in its wake. A ...

And an Apollo 16 mystery solved.

NASA scientists have discovered the largest newly-formed crater ever found in the solar system. It was created when an asteroid fragment the size of a six-storey building slammed into the moon two ...

Two photos taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the same area of the Moon before and after it was hit by a large object. NASA scientists have published before-and-after photos of a newly ...

Sientists analysing the space rock have found it contains life-supporting chemistry ...

A feather discovered inside 66-million-year-old fossilized dinosaur poop may help explain why modern birds survived the asteroid catastrophe. The extinct bird it came from had more primitive ...