It can even alert occupants of a moon base if there is radioactive debris to hit the lunar surface.

The asteroid 2024 YR4 recently caused some concern due to a notable probability of hitting the Moon. The use of the James ...

Webb telescope data shows a once-risky asteroid will safely pass Earth and the Moon in 2032, removing all impact concerns.

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If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Those are the ...

One bright day on Earth about 4.5 billion years ago, everything changed. A massive object slammed into the young planet. The impact was so large that bits were flung out into space, eventually ...

A doctoral candidate from the University of Washington may have heard a cosmic explosion that explains how the Moon came into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have observed the fallout from a planetary collision 11,000 light years from Earth. When worlds collide…suns act ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mariel Borowitz, Georgia Institute of Technology and Brian Gunter, Georgia Institute ...

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon, came from closer to the sun. Artist’s impression of the collision between ...