"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

They were dug out by debris sent violently aloft when an asteroid or comet struck the lunar surface 3.8 billion years ago.

“When the impacting asteroid or comet hit the lunar surface, it excavated a tremendous volume of rock that was launched into ...

On January 2, the Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of the unique asteroid 2018 CN41, but soon had to remove the object from the official li ...

This discovery is promising for scientists and NASA, which plans to land astronauts at the south pole on the near side of the Moon. This region, unaffected by the asteroid impact, holds older rocks in ...

Scientists stress more testing is needed to better understand the Bennu samples, as well as more asteroid and comet sample returns ... the wreckage of a plane crash in western Alaska that killed ...

Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to bring peace to the Middle East, earning him favour among Arab-American voters ...

The cause for the crash is not yet known. The Learjet 55 departed Northeast Philadelphia Airport at about 6:30 p.m. ET bound for Springfield-Branson National Airport in Missouri, and the pilot did not ...

This week, NASA published images of a comet surging a close path to the sun ... explorers a recent image of a color-enhanced view of Jupiter from NASA’s Juno mission taken in December 2024 ...