July 9, 2025, saw the Earth spin through one of its shortest days on record a fleeting, nanosecond instant that passed ...

Scientists found a rock in Africa that originally came from the Moon after being knocked off by an asteroid impact and ...

China's Chang’e-6 mission has delivered the first-ever samples from the Moon’s far side, shedding light on one of planetary ...

China’s Chang’e-6 mission has made lunar history by retrieving the first-ever samples from the Moon’s mysterious farside, ...

YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

How did Earth, alone among the Solar System's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

A small shift in trajectory has raised the risk of a lunar impact — but the scariest part is, we can't track it anymore.

“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this ...

"If 2024 YR4 strikes the Moon in 2032, it will (statistically speaking) be the largest impact in approximately 5,000 years," ...

The moon's near and far sides exhibit striking asymmetry—from topography and crustal thickness to volcanic activity—yet the ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical signature, found in Africa in 2023, plugs a major gap in our ...