A recent study from the University of Florida suggests that molten magma on the moon's surface cooled much later than ...

This was Pope Leo's first visit to the observatory, founded in 1891 by Leo XIII. He later called Aldrin. “Together we shared ...

A massive landslide would have dammed the Colorado River, forming a deep lake that has since dried up. A meteorite impact ...

A remarkable 2.35 billion year old meteorite found in Africa in 2023 has opened a new window into the Moon's volcanic history ...

The presence of driftwood and lake sediments has long been known in Stanton's Cave in Marble Canyon of eastern Grand Canyon. The mouth of the cave is 150 feet above the river, so geologists wondered ...

Chinese scientists believe samples found by Chang'e-6 mission answer central question in lunar science, but some in the West have doubts A year after China returned the first rock samples from the ...

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

When NASA’s DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid moon Dimorphos in September 2022, it didn’t just change the asteroid’s orbit as intended—it unleashed a massive barrage of boulders ...

Depending on whether the asteroid hits the near side of the moon —a 50-50 chance assuming it hits it at all — about 10 percent of the debris, about 100 million kilograms, ranging in size from ...

As the asteroid moved out of range of even the most advanced telescopes, calculations left a remaining 4% probability that it could impact the Moon on December 22, 2032. This impact risk is expected ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except for one small chunk.

“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this probability was still slowly rising as the asteroid faded out of view,” the ...