Consider the dramatic visual and gravitational consequences if a large asteroid struck and fractured the Moon.

Lucy’s next stop — “the main event,” as Levison calls it — will be the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

An asteroid that was once expected to hit Earth is now being closely monitored for a potential collision with the Moon. The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, received much attention after NASA claimed it ...

For months, astronomers were concerned that a newly discovered asteroid, 2024 YR4 ... (JWST), we now know Earth is in the clear. The Moon, however, might still be in its path.

Saturn's Moon Titan Could Harbor Life ... meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ... Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide ...

Researchers created solar cells made out of simulated Moon dust. The cells convert sunlight ... Mar. 17, 2025 — New modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have ...

However, when a smaller rock comes in the periphery of a larger one, it gets pulled by the bigger one and becomes its moon. In 2013, scientists observed that an asteroid could also have rings, which ...

Space agencies from the US, Europe and Japan are all making plans to visit the asteroid Apophis when it makes an extremely ...

Here are the dates for the full moons in 2025. The next full moon will be on Monday, May 12. It will officially reach its full moon phase at 12:56 p.m. EST (1656 GMT), but local moonrise times ...

See what moon phase it is tonight and find out when you can see the rest of the moon phases for 2025. Today, April 17, 2025, the moon is 19 days old and is in the Waning Gibbous phase of its lunar ...