NASA and the European Space Agency said Wednesday that the chance of the asteroid impacting Earth is slightly more than 1%.

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

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PT5, initially believed to be a tiny asteroid, likely originated from the Moon. Discovered in 2024 ... Representative Image Last year, Earth’s moon had a companion for a few months, which ...

They write, "If there really is a population of Moon Rocks out there waiting to be discovered on near-Earth orbits, they almost certainly are rare members of the NEO population." There may well be ...

A research team has discovered another piece in the puzzle of the formation of the Moon and water on Earth. The prevailing theory was that the Moon was the result of a collision between the early ...

has discovered another piece in the puzzle of the formation of the moon and water on Earth. The prevailing theory had been that the moon was the result of a collision between early Earth and the ...

Discovered in August 2024, the 33-foot-wide object has followed a path similar to Earth’s, making it a temporary celestial neighbor. (Artist’s concept.) In January 2025, NASA’s Goldstone Solar System ...

Scientists studying data from the Alpha Centauri star system on Wednesday announced what they believe is a second Earth-like planet ... Scientific American, the discovery of this planet might ...

Discovery of the moon Deimos Moons are rare in the inner solar system. Neither Mercury nor Venus has a moon, and Earth, of course, has just one permanent natural satellite (though it sometimes ...

Late on March 13 and in the early hours of March 14 this year, 13 percent of the world's population will fall in the path of a total eclipse of the moon, with the Earth totally blocking out the ...

Ahead of the lunar lander is a 60-day mission to Earth's only natural satellite, where it will deploy a fleet of NASA's scientific instruments to study the moon's environment before humans return.