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China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.
A recently discovered asteroid has entered the limelight, putting scientists around the world on alert. According to a study ...
"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other Earth-orbiting platforms, which are above our atmosphere." ...
A small shift in trajectory has raised the risk of a lunar impact — but the scariest part is, we can't track it anymore.
A 2.35-billion-year-old Moon rock that fell to Earth in Africa is rewriting what we know about lunar volcanism. This rare ...
Learn about the technology that may help astronauts survive on the moon by extracting water from lunar soil and producing ...
Save the world and get fabulously wealthy doing so. Someone really should make a movie out of that scenario, before it ...
Predicting the precise path of a new asteroid or comet is a complex affair; the more observations you have, the better you ...
Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...
In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...
Asteroids don’t always need to head straight for Earth to draw global attention. The case of asteroid 2024 YR4 is proving ...
YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...