The moon did indeed coalesce out of tiny bits of pulverized planet blasted into space by a catastrophic collision 4.5 billion years ago, two new studies suggest. The new research potentially plugs a ...

A brilliant flash on the Moon's dark side, captured by Irish astronomers on December 12, 2025, likely signals a meteoroid ...

Billions of years ago, a version of our Earth that looks very different than the one we live on today was hit by an object about the size of Mars, called Theia – and out of that collision the Moon was ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is about 60 metres long, may hit the Moon in December of the year 2032. Scientists assured that Earth is ...

SpaceX is about to leave a permanent mark in space. Astronomers said this week that a piece of a Falcon 9 rocket that was launched in February 2015 is currently on a trajectory to collide with the ...

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Astrobotic will let its lander burn up in the Earth's atmosphere when it comes back to our planet. The spacecraft's mission to the moon was scuppered shortly after launch due to a fuel leak.

A US spacecraft involved in the first American attempt to land on the Moon in more than 50 years is headed back down to Earth, its maker said. The private mission by Pittsburgh-based space company ...

An asteroid roughly the size of a small city may slam into the Moon in 2032, and if it does, the blast could hurl clouds of lunar rock into space and toward Earth. Scientists say the odds of a direct ...

The wayward booster left not one but two impact craters on the lunar surface, suggesting there was something undisclosed on the Chang'e 5-T1 mission. Reading time 3 minutes The surface of the Moon is ...

Most theories claim the Moon formed out of the debris of a collision between the Earth and an object about the size of Mars, called Theia, coalescing in orbit over months or years. A new simulation ...

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