China has formed a planetary defense team to monitor asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 2.2% impact probability. Global space ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...

This research helps us understand the violent nature of cosmic collisions and their role in shaping planetary landscapes. By ...

Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever collected. These fragments date back 4.5 billion years and contain salts, ...

China has begun forming a team of experts to address the threats posed by asteroids and other celestial bodies, Azernews ...

The moon's Schrödinger impact basin near the south pole holds two grand canyons formed by an enormous asteroid collision 3.8 ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...

China is assembling a 'planetary defence' team to monitor asteroids as fears grow over the 2024 YR4 asteroid, which is ...

Scientists found that an asteroid impact carved two massive canyons on the moon in minutes. High-speed debris helped shape ...

Two canyons on the far side of the moon, each as large as Earth's Grand Canyon, formed within less than 10 minutes, most ...

Scientists say Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck—dramatic trenches near the lunar south pole—were carved in a blast that ...