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Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...
An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth, but the James Webb Space Telescope went to get a look at it ...
A “city killer” asteroid experts feared was on a crash course with Earth is now expected to miss the planet — but it still ...
A new image has emerged of the Red Planet rising above the lunar limb after being occulted by the moon in January.
As NASA puts it, if the Earth were the size of a nickel ... the Earth’s shadow falls on the moon, and the blue wavelengths of sunlight streaming past our planet are scattered by the atmosphere ...
The asteroid is shaped like a hockey puck and is about the size of a football field in diameter which is about 60m.
If the Moon were to suddenly vanish from the solar system, our home planet would suffer devastating consequences ...
Catch two transits of Io, spot sparkling star clusters, and view Mars at aphelion while the April Full Moon lights the sky ...
YR4 won't hit Earth, but scientists now estimate a 4% chance it could strike the Moon, possibly affecting space missions.
Despite a few months topping the hit list of the most dangerous asteroids, it is now certain that 2024 YR4 won’t hit our ...
YR4 asteroid has a near-zero chance of striking Earth, but a slim chance of hitting the moon, new research says.