Can NASA nuke an asteroid? It has plans to do so with asteroid 2024 YR4, which is predicted to crash into our Moon in 2032.

With a low but notable chance of hitting our moon this asteroid is in the sights of scientists. A city-block-sized asteroid ...

Whether an asteroid is spinning neatly on its axis or tumbling chaotically, and how fast it is doing so, has been shown to be ...

If asteroid 2024 YR4 hits the Moon, it could launch dust and small rocks into space, creating micrometeoroid debris in low Earth orbit.

A massive comet traveling through the solar system is much larger than previously thought and could be a remnant of alien ...

China's Chang'e 6 mission returned the first-ever far-side lunar samples, revealing new insights into the moon's interior.

New research suggests that the interior of the Moon’s far side may be colder than the side constantly facing Earth, adding ...

The farside possesses a thicker crust - the outermost layer of the planet - and is more mountainous and cratered.

Among them is Professor Yang Li, a geoscientist at Beijing’s Peking University and an honorary professor at the University ...

We could be overlooking an entire population of asteroids that pose a threat to Earth on the very simple basis that they're ...

Many media influencers, including Joe Rogan, a comedian and podcaster on “ The Joe Rogan Experience,” have claimed that ...

"At $20 million a kilogram, you can put together a good business just going after He-3 for quantum computing over the next ...