Last fall, the scientific community went into a minor frenzy. A hunk of interstellar material had been sucked into the ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the lunar far side. That's good news for scientists and NASA ...

Delve in and read on to know the details! Billions of years ago, an asteroid or comet struck the Moon, creating two huge canyons in just minutes. This discovery has amazed scientists, showing how ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is on a potential crash course with Earth, but there’s a very slight chance the moon could take the hit. Based on current observations, there is a 2.1 per cent chance that the ...

The moon's Schrödinger impact basin near the south pole holds two grand canyons formed by an enormous asteroid collision 3.8 billion years ago. Unlike Earth's, these canyons formed in less than ...

Now, new calculations by University of Arizona astronomer David Rankin have reportedly found that there is a slim chance of about 0.3 per cent of the 90-metre-wide asteroid crashing onto the Moon.

Scientists found that an asteroid impact carved two massive canyons on the moon in minutes. High-speed debris helped shape ...

The object that struck the moon is estimated to have been about 15 miles (25 km) in diameter, larger than the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago and doomed the dinosaurs. "When the ...

New calculations suggest that a large asteroid recently predicted to have an increased odds of striking Earth could miss the planet and might instead impact the Moon. Nasa’s Center for Near Earth ...