The near miss by the large Apophis asteroid in April 2029 offers NASA a golden—and exceedingly rare—opportunity to observe ...

There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, ...

June 30 is Asteroid Day, which honors the Tunguska event in Russia 117 years ago and teaches about asteroids and their ...

Or so hear members of Parliament in the UK UK lawmakers have learned there is no international protocol for making decisions ...

Chinese scientists push for cubesat swarm mission to fly by infamous asteroid Apophis China could launch a mission involving ...

An asteroid the size of a 10-story building could now make impact with the moon, which would global communications and ...

Small and elusive night lizards probably persisted because they have slow metabolisms and like to hide out in rock crevices, ...

If a huge asteroid smashes into the moon in 2032, the gigantic explosion would send debris streaming toward Earth that would ...

The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 ...

YR4 may strike the moon in 2032, posing risks to satellites from lunar ejecta and possibly causing a brief meteor shower.

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Experts know from past experiments that djerfisherite can be created when potassium-rich fluids and iron-nickel sulfides ...