On December 22nd, 2032, Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4 percent chance of actually striking the Moon. If it does, it will release ...

For the Moon itself, the story is different. The Moon has far less water than Earth, but for such a dry world it’s important.

Venus could experience a dramatic meteor shower this summer, the result of the breaking apart of a nearby asteroid that has ...

It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the very early Solar System ...

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Planetary scientists analyzing oxygen isotopes in lunar soil from the Apollo mission sites conclude that meteorite bombardment over 4 billion years could only have delivered a tiny fraction of Earth’s ...

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet," study lead Miki Nakajima, an associate professor in the ...

A solar storm could wreck havoc on our satellites and send them all crashing into each other, creating an unstoppable debris ...

How Earth got its water may trace back to its original building blocks. Apollo Moon soil shows meteorites added only a small ...

Now, scientists have devised a clever new way to predict where the pieces may land.

The space rock is hurtling through our cosmic backyard at a zippy 26,200 miles per hour, according to the space agency.