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Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 4% chance of smashing into the Moon in about seven years. Astronomers are already working ...

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 ...

So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases ...

Experiments on Earth indicate some common species of bacteria and fungi could survive for several days on the moon's surface, ...

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

The U.S. and China are in a sprint toward manned missions to the lunar surface by the end of this decade, with sights on 2029 ...

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 ...

Bake them, freeze them, fire them from a gun or blast them into space: tardigrades can survive almost anything. Some experts ...

Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the overall duration of the eclipse. The moon will appear a striking red color for some around the world thanks to a total lunar eclipse in the ...

Editor's note: The below contains spoilers for Alien: Earth Episode 5. Not even the biggest fan of the Alien franchise could predict just how good Noah Hawley's Alien: Earth would be. Halfway through ...

On the night of Sunday, September 7 into the morning of September 8, the sky will treat the majority of the world to a total lunar eclipse, also known as a “blood moon.” For more than an hour, the ...