Scientists have spotted an asteroid which they estimate has a more than 2 per cent risk of hitting Earth in eight years time ...

CHINA is assembling a planetary defence team after a giant “city-killer” asteroid was discovered hurtling towards Earth. The ...

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India's Chandrayaan-3 mission achieved a historic soft landing on the Moon's South Pole on August 23, 2023. ISRO's study ...

Of the Asteroid 2024 YR4, Mr Rankin said last month: "It is just important to keep in mind that its orbit is still too ...

The Moon is no stranger to being struck by huge lumps of space rock. In fact, new research has shown that, nearly four ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

An asteroid being monitored closely by scientists could potentially collide with Earth, but there is also the possibility of ...

"One advantage of the shallow entry, slow velocity atmospheric path model is that by the time the meteoroid is close to ...

About 35 million years ago, an asteroid struck the ocean off the East Coast of North America, leaving behind a massive impact ...

The far side of the Moon has its own versions of the Grand Canyon—two of them, in fact! A new study explains how these deep ...

The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...