With no atmosphere to slow it down, asteroid 2024 YR4 could carve a 1-km-wide crater—the largest fresh lunar scar in 5,000 ...

Astronomers are considering blowing up the “city killer” asteroid, estimated to have a small chance of crashing onto the Moon ...

International team of researchers discovered and successfully dated, for the first time ever, the birth of microorganisms in a meteorite crater.

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Fleet Space Technologies, Australia’s leading space exploration company, has signed a memorandum of understanding with ExLabs ...

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Scientists may have finally solved the mystery of giant exploding craters spotted in western Siberia, known to blast soil and ice hundreds of feet into the air. These craters, known as giant gas ...

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Astronomers are considering blowing up the “city killer” asteroid, estimated to have a small chance of crashing onto the moon in 2032, to cut the risk of the collision debris destroying satellites.