Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

Preparing comprehensive safety measures—covering dust control, system redundancies and mental health—is vital for the success ...

Space has captured human imagination for centuries. Yet along with our fascination, countless misconceptions have spread like ...

The Artemis II mission, which could launch as early as February, is expected to send four astronauts on a trip to the moon, ...

It's hard enough to see a meteorite strike on Earth: Most of the bits of space debris that survive entry into the atmosphere plunge into the ocean, which covers about 70 percent of the planet. The ...

Founded in 2017 in Golden, Colorado, Lunar Outpost has rapidly evolved from a commercial lunar mobility startup to a key player in NASA’s Artemis program. On December 4, 2025, the company announced ...

A meteorite was spotted over northern Michigan’s sky on Sunday, according to a company that chases storms and follows the weather. The fireball was seen over Michigan at about 6 p.m., Michigan Storm ...

One bright day on Earth about 4.5 billion years ago, everything changed. A massive object slammed into the young planet. The impact was so large that bits were flung out into space, eventually ...

Theia, the colossal, Mars-sized impactor that collided with the Earth to birth our Moon, may have come from the direction of the Sun, answering a fundamental question about the formation of our solar ...

A Japanese astronomer captured a pair of objects slamming into the lunar surface in recent days. By Robin George Andrews Last week, a handful of watching telescopes captured something crashing into ...

Sifting through the first-ever rock samples collected from the far side of the Moon, scientists in China have unearthed a surprise: fragments of a rare type of meteorite that could help to piece ...