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

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.

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

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

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

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

It's the dawn of a new era for 4 very lucky zodiac signs — but are they ready for the cosmically-ordained chaos?

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

Historically, Earth's rotation has been slowing down over millions of years. Around 1 to 2 billion years ago, a day lasted ...

Look to the skies on Thursday night and you can see something unusual: the ‘Moon illusion’, which happens when our satellite ...