For decades, scientists have been puzzled by a strange feature of the Moon: while the Moon today has no magnetic field, some ...

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A large asteroid, 2003 MH4, is set to approach Earth on May 24, 2025, at a distance of 6.68 million kilometers. Classified as ...

Using computer simulations, the researchers uncovered a scenario in which an ancient asteroid impact briefly amplified that field, just long enough for nearby rocks to capture and record its magnetic ...

Scientists may have solved the mystery of why the moon shows ancient signs of magnetism although it has no magnetic field today. An impact, such as from a large asteroid, could have generated a cloud ...

Over at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the Shanxi Province, a CZ-6A launched Yaogan 40 Group 02 into polar orbit on ...

A combination of a dynamo-generated magnetic field and massive impacts could explain the highly magnetized rocks in some ...

While the moon once had a weak magnetic field generated by a small molten core, the team's research suggests it likely wouldn ...

At the very edge of our solar system, beyond the grasp of Neptune and even past the icy sprawl of Pluto’s domain, a new ...

There have been proposed hypotheses as to how the Moon could have developed a core dynamo. For instance, a 2022 analysis ...

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One of the asteroids will come as close as within 120,000 miles from the Earth, soaring past at over 41,000 miles per hour.