Researchers have also suggested that an asteroid impact triggered the moon’s lopsidedness. Now, lunar rock and soil samples ...

NASA is closely monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4 after scientists identified a potential lunar impact path in 2032. While it ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, a roughly 180 foot wide rock initially labeled a “city killer,” has focused attention on how quickly a ...

A research team led by Prof. TIAN Hengci from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers were busy in 2025, starting the year off by tracking an asteroid that put Earth on alert, followed by discoveries in ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...

The near side of the Moon, which faces the Earth, is thinner, while the mysterious far side is crammed with thick layers of ...

A group of Chinese researchers revealed that the volatile loss from the lunar mantle was induced by the giant impact that ...