More than six million people have now been told by water companies not to use hosepipes as increasingly dry conditions have ...

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

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

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

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

Paul Wiegert, a Western physics and astronomy professor, shares insights on asteroid 2024 YR4 and the likelihood it will hit Earth or the Moon.

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Photo: Courtesy of the CAS . The Global Times learned Thursday from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) that four studies ...

A series of research findings by Chinese scientists on the samples collected by the Chang'e-6 mission from the moon's far ...

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.

When NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with a small asteroid moon in late 2022, the impact made history. It was the first ...

According to Time and Date, a website that tracks time and time zones, the current record holder for the shortest day on ...