If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Those are the ...
A nearly 60 meter Apollo-class near-Earth asteroid, 2024 YR4 was spotted in 2024 whose path crosses both Earth’s and the Moon’s orbits. Initially it was speculated to impact Earth however a refined ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4's collision with the moon could create a flash visible from Earth, study finds
If the building-size asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the moon in December 2032, the impact will produce a bright flash that ...
Scientists suggest Titan formed from a giant moon collision that also may explain Saturn’s rings and strange moon orbits.
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Scientists Brought a Rock From the Far Side of the Moon — and It Held Surprising Clues to Earth’s History
Somewhere in the early summer of 2025, China’s Chang’e6 capsule landed on the South Pole of the Moon and started digging its silver-grey soil with a drill. Once the pit was deep enough, the capsule ...
New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon, came from closer to the sun. Artist’s impression of the collision between ...
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