There’s something almost otherworldly about standing in the middle of a desert at night. No city glow, no noise except maybe ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, Earth had a violent neighbor. A young, still-forming planet named Theia slammed into our world with enough force to melt vast portions of its mantle and scatter a huge ...

Astronomers were slow at spotting a small giraffe-sized asteroid that zoomed past our planet on Tuesday, September 30, 2025, ...

“Impact flashes on the moon are very common,” University of Colorado Boulder astrophysical and planetary sciences professor Paul Hayne said. “In fact, they happen more or less every night, and it’s a ...

New research reveals that Theia, the colossal, Mars-sized impactor that collided with the Earth to birth our Moon, may have ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has spotted a striking iron- and nickel-rich rock on Mars, named “Phippsaksla,” which may be a ...

In a Gold Coast factory, former banker and gymnast Adam Gilmour is working on a rocket design that could take a slice of Elon ...

Central Texas skies could put on a small show again this week as the Northern Taurids return for another round of slow, ...

The Leonid meteor shower is set to brighten the night sky again tonight, and experts say the conditions could not be any ...

Morocco now produces more meteorite discoveries than anywhere on Earth, with some Martian and lunar fragments selling for millions of dollars.

A new analysis of lunar soil from China’s Chang’e-6 mission has revealed something scientists didn’t expect to find on the moon – tiny grains of iron rust. Until now, the moon was believed to lack the ...

The discovery of iron rust in lunar soil has major implications for future exploration. It suggests that the Moon’s surface ...