There are only a few known fields of tektites in the entire world, and scientists just found another in Brazil.

Research team cites abundant mare basalts, river-like valleys formed from surface lava flows and deposits of volcanic materials Scientists in China and Germany have identified four possible landing ...

An asteroid the size of a building could collide with the Moon in 2032 and generate a flash visible from Earth.

From city skylines to remote dark skies, skywatchers worldwide captured the total lunar eclipse 2026 in all its crimson glory ...

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...

The Apollo missions changed how scientists understand the moon. Returning with Artemis could help solve some of the biggest lunar mysteries.

In Madison and nearby southeast Missouri counties, William Jud, a Fredericktown geologist, may have identified a buried ...

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test did not simply knock a small space rock off course. The 2022 kinetic impact reshaped the moonlet Dimorphos, altered its orbit far beyond expectations, and even ...

Scientists tested whether microbes can survive the shock of a planetary impact and found some may endure the violent launch into space.

The mission without a doubt proves that we could deflect a hazardous asteroid away from Earth — so long as we discover it in ...

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets – including Earth – and survive, a new Johns Hopkins ...