Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

NASA is still studying the asteroid's potential impact on the moon ... Should it make an impact it could leave a sizeable crater on the moon, but Johnson does not expect any issues on Earth.

February, asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted and originally believed to have a 3.1 per cent of hitting Earth in 2032. Further calculations revealed this was not the case.

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

A major breakthrough in space science has revealed the age of the Moon’s biggest and oldest crater—the South Pole–Aitken (SPA ...

MORE: Chance of asteroid ... moon itself, with more than a million craters exceeding one kilometer (.62 miles) in diameter, is evidence of "intense bombardment," according to the paper. Impact ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

Martian moon Deimos appears dark, framed by the brighter planet Mars behind it, in this visible light monochromatic Asteroid ...

Most impact craters formed on Earth have ... 1.3 million craters over 1 km in diameter on the moon, with another 700,000 or so smaller ones. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered on Dec. 27, 2024 ...

It’s very rare that planetary geologists can tell whether it was an asteroid or comet that hit ... To truly appreciate how common impact craters are, we need to look to Earth’s closest neighbour, the ...