If a huge asteroid smashes into the moon in 2032, the gigantic explosion would send debris streaming toward Earth that would ...

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The 60-meter asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4.3% chance of hitting the Moon, potentially releasing 100 million kilograms of debris ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...

Rubin Observatory's highly anticipated first image release conference — and they each represented an asteroid that had just been discovered. It felt like witnessing something hugely profound, and ...

The pristine samples from asteroid Ryugu returned by the Hayabusa2 mission on December 6, 2020, have been vital to improving ...

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In just 10 hours of observing the night sky, the powerful new telescope detected more than 2000 new asteroids, including a ...

YR4 - the up to 300ft-wide chunk of space rock - was originally on course to crash down on Earth on December 22, 2032.

Scenes of nebulas in the Milky Way, a cluster of galaxies and thousands of new asteroids are a teaser of how the U.S.-funded ...

New research says that Earth could be ejected from our solar system if a passing star was to come close enough.

Dangeti Jahnavi from Andhra Pradesh, will travel to space in 2029. She is the first Indian to complete Nasa’s International ...