Daichi Fujii from the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan captured a meteor impact the moon with multiple telescopes. Credit: ...
The devastation of a giant meteorite impact on early Earth may have allowed life to flourish, new research suggests. A study ...
The first lunar samples from the moon’s far side differ in some interesting ways from those collected from the near side, ...
Credit: Daichi Fujii (Hiratsuka City Museum) | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta Music: Shifting Angles by Experia / courtesy of Epidemic Sound Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus.
Sometimes, getting hit by a space rock is a good thing. The asteroid which struck Earth 66 million years ago wiped the dinosaurs off the planet (at least until John Hammond built Jurassic Park ...
The chemistry of the rock layers reveals remnants of the meteor itself, which was a primitive type of space rock called a carbonaceous chondrite. It would have measured between 23 and 36 miles (37 ...
In October last year, NASA launched the 1.2 billion (£988 million) Psyche spacecraft on a six-year, 2.2 billion-mile (3.6 billion-kilometre) trip to a space rock. NASA has said it has no ...
When a gargantuan space rock, estimated to be the size of four Mount Everests, crashed into Earth more than 3 billion years ago, many may assume that it would have wreaked havoc on a young planet.
WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (Reuters) - The space rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period caused a global calamity that doomed the dinosaurs and many other ...