Clyde Tombaugh didn't set out to discover Pluto when he sent his sketches of the night sky to Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff ...

NASA analysis of near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 indicates it has >1% chance of impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, which also means there's ~99% chance this asteroid will not impact. Such initial ...

CIRBE (Colorado Inner Radiation Belt Electron Experiment ... came back from the dead quickly enough to discover two new and ...

Seven years after SpaceX launched Elon Musk’s cherry red ... small celestial bodies. An astronomer there verified the finding. And thus, the Minor Planet Center logged a new object, asteroid ...

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The impact occurred during a period of heavy bombardment in the inner solar system by space ... at the time. The object that struck the moon is estimated to have been about 15 miles (25 km) in ...

That order also hasn’t stopped the already-moving train of billions ... with plans to spend up to $17 billion through 2025 on constructing a total of eight factories (two of which are already ...

It is now moving ... The asteroid came closest to Earth on Christmas Day — passing within roughly 800,000 kilometres of Earth, about twice the distance of the moon. It was discovered two days ...

A new study by scientists suggests that an asteroid impact on the ... which was carved through millions of years of erosion - the two lunar craters are thought to have taken just ten minutes ...

Two immense canyons on the moon's far side ... "The lunar surface is like a timestamp of the early times of our solar system." Using ballistic calculations, the researchers determined that the ...