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If the building-size asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the moon in December 2032, the impact will produce a bright flash that ...

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A rare carbonaceous meteorite discovered in the Western Sahara has captured the attention of scientists for containing grains that predate the birth of our Sun.

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A Sydney Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny piece of the universe inside a bottle in her laboratory, producing cosmic dust ...

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A bright streak of light briefly crossed the night sky above Wellington, New Zealand, on 30 January, catching the attention ...

Victorians have woken to space junk from one of Elon Musk’s satellites falling through the sky. At about 5.27am on Tuesday ...

Scientists say falling space junk will become more common with the increase in satellite launches in recent years.

Ancient marine extinctions, previously a mystery, are now linked to massive underwater volcanic eruptions in the Tethys Ocean. Rocks from Tibet, once the seafloor, reveal chemical signatures of these ...