There have been proposed hypotheses as to how the Moon could have developed a core dynamo. For instance, a 2022 analysis ...

If pollen allergies are getting to you, you are not alone. Every year, plants release billions of pollen grains into the air, ...

The Chinese space program is preparing to join the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA in launching a mission to return samples from an asteroid to Earth. The Tianwen-2 probe and its ...

An asteroid impact is one facet of that ... the first US mission to collect a sample from an asteroid. In October 2020 the ...

If this asteroid follows the pattern of other near-Earth asteroids after their discovery, the chances of impact will rise and then fall, according to the agency. For example, the asteroid Apophis ...

Odds are a funny thing. 1-in-100, for example, sounds like a long shot—until you find out it’s the chance that an asteroid will impact Earth. In a surprising—but not definitive—turn of ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many mollusks. By studying the ...

for example, if it was going to land in the ocean, we simply evacuate that area and let the object fall,” Binzel said. If scientists determine that the asteroid will impact Earth, the United ...

The ESA and NASA both published special fact sheets for asteroid 2024 YR4. For example, the fact sheets featured data about the object's estimated velocity, consequences of potential impact and ...

While the identification has triggered international planetary defense measures, experts say that further observations of the asteroid might drop the impact ... s Ian Sample last week.