The Asteroid That Briefly Worried Planetary Defense Experts Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered in late 2024 and quickly drew attention because early orbital calculations left open a possible Earth ...

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China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft arrived at near-Earth asteroid 469219 Kamo'oalewa on July 6, 2026, completing a 400-day, 1-billion-kilometer voyage to one of the strangest objects in Earth's neighborhood ...

Asteroid Vesta’s battered surface is far from static, it quietly preserves the memory of past collapses, impacts, and ...

Around three billion years ago, long before animals, forests, or even complex life existed, a large asteroid struck a young Earth. The collision happened at a time when the planet looked very ...

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The oldest asteroid crater on the Earth is over 3 billion years old, according to a new study that sheds more light on our planet's earliest history. Researchers from Curtin University investigated ...

A study claims that the North Pole Dome crater in Western Australia was caused by an asteroid strike 3 billion years ago, but other researchers dispute the proposed age ...

The Moon’s biggest scar may be hiding something even stranger than the impact that made it. Deep beneath the South ...

Scientists from the Southwest Research Institute’s Center for Lunar Origin and Evolution (CLOE) have revealed new models of the Moon’s oldest and largest impact crater, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) ...

The Moon’s biggest scar does not sit quietly in the background. The South Pole-Aitken basin is a vast impact structure more than 2,000 kilometers wide on the lunar far side.