An Earth-observing radar satellite launched in July jointly between the U.S. and India has returned its first images of our ...

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

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

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