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When NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid moon Dimorphos in September 2022, it didn't just change the asteroid's ...
The smoking gun of the creation of lithium in explosions on white dwarf stars may have been found, in a spike of gamma rays ...
Discovered in Niger in 2023, the rare chunk weighs 54 pounds and represents more than 6 percent of all Mars material on Earth ...
Astronomers investigate a potential impact on Saturn after a bright flash was caught on camera. NASA image may show first ...
Faint booms from space help track incoming debris. But the path matters more than you think. Earth gains a little mass each year as space dust rains down from above, adding thousands of metric tons to ...
Unlike rocky planets where asteroid impacts leave visible craters, gas giants like Saturn have outer layers of hydrogen and ...
Led by Monash University’s School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, the study was published Tuesday in the journal Earth ...
The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...
Once upon a time, Earth may have sported a planetary ring of its very own ... in sedimentary rocks from this period contain ...
China may have just become the first country to attempt satellite-to-satellite refuelling in geosynchronous orbit ...
The comet will zip past Mars’s orbit and reach its closest point to the Sun on 29 October 2025, at 1.35 astronomical units.