Daichi Fujii from the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan captured a meteor impact the moon with multiple telescopes. Credit: Daichi Fujii (Hiratsuka City Museum) | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta Musi ...

Scientists proposed an explanation for the formation of Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck near the lunar south pole, which ...

The moon's canyons stretch out ... Scientists believe it was formed when a large meteor tore into the lunar surface, creating an extremely violent explosion and tossing debris up to 310 miles ...

YR4 is circling Earth and NASA predicts it could strike the planet in 2032. Here's what to know about the asteroid headed ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

These popular astronomy questions, answered by Astronomy magazine, will help you better understand our universe - and share ...

The possibility of the asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting our planet might not be ruled out until 2028, raising the prospect we’ll ...

A 90-metre-long asteroid has a chance of slamming into the moon and missing Earth in 2035 ... More than half as wide as a football field, the “meteor crater size” rock could approach Earth just before ...

An asteroid becomes a meteorite when it travels to Earth from a nearby orbit or the outer solar system and collides with ...

There's also a slight chance the asteroid could hit the moon. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is considered ... such as the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor explosion over Russia that injured nearly 1,500 people.