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The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

As night fell and a full moon hung between the fragmented clouds, citizen Xiao Zhang suddenly had a whimsical thought: what if the moon were to 'crack' like a shattered porcelain bowl? Would those ...

NASA could soon trial a new defence strategy to prevent a giant asteroid hurtling towards the Moon and posing a huge risk to astronauts. It comes after NASA intentionally used a spacecraft to bump ...

Astronomers are observing asteroid 2024 YR4. It may hit the Moon in 2032. A lunar impact could send debris toward Earth. This ...

The potential 'city killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 has a small chance of hitting the moon in 2032. In a new paper, scientists ...

Billions of years ago a planet called Theia collided with Earth in a massive impact. This film explores how the crash shaped ...

Researchers are discussing 2025 PN7, a small celestial body that's following a similar orbital path to our planet's without being gravitationally tied to Earth ...

So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases the size of the Moon’s orbit. This means that the Moon gets slightly farther ...

Scientists are taking precautions against Asteroid 2024 YR4, which might hit the Moon in 2032. Instead of the usual plan to ...

A few nights ago, while taking a walk, I looked up and saw the Moon particularly round, with a few wispy clouds drifting nearby. Suddenly, a silly thought popped into my head—what if the Moon suddenly ...

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...