The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

"In many ways, Odin has become both a pioneer and a teacher — continuing its mission by informing our future endeavors, even ...

Back in 1969, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first set foot on the moon, scientists knew of just 31 other moons in our ...

California-based asteroid mining company AstroForge shared ... The Athena lander also made it to the moon, after descending near the lunar south pole on Thursday in hopes of conducting a water ...

According to NASA, there is still a small probability that the 2032 asteroid could impact the moon, with the odds standing ... Native American effigy mound shaped like a snake found in the ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare images of the red planet's mysterious small moon Deimos, the European Space ...

NASA has said Earth will likely be spared by a deadly Big Ben-sized asteroid and predicts it could smash into the Moon instead in a dramatic collision. The space agency feared the chance of a ...

Around the iconic Piccadilly Circus fountain, asteroid-shaped iridescent boulders appear to have tumbled ... and Mirrored Fatality which have been bounced off the Moon. Transmitted 768,800 km via ...

The moon, however, may not be in the clear. When first discovered in December, Asteroid 2024 YR4 had a small but notable chance of impacting Earth in 2032, according to information from NASA's ...

However, there is a 1.7% chance that it could impact the moon. In 2013, a small asteroid, just 60 feet wide, exploded over Russia, injuring more than 1,600 people. An asteroid big enough to wipe ...

hitching a ride with Intuitive Machines’ third mission to the Moon. “This is a new frontier, and we got another shot at it with Vestri,” Gialich added. aerospace technology Asteroid mining ...