"It is incredible that modern telescopic surveys have the ability to detect such small objects up to millions of kilometers ...

YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

The significance of this blind spot was made clear on 15 February 2013, ... This image depicts the probability that the asteroid 2024 YR4 will impact Earth's moon on 22 December 2032.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft captured this image of the Earth and the moon from a distance of 890,000 miles, on October 13, 2022. NASA/Goddard/SwRI 2022-10-26T18:12:32Z ...

The researchers found that Earth sits right at the edge of the sweet spot in a planet’s ability to form a large moon. Anything larger than about 1.6 Earth radii (corresponding to about 60 ...

Unlike the Earth, the Moon is not tilted relative to its path around the Sun. As a result, the Sun circles the horizon near the poles, almost never setting on some crater rims.

Still, the sun remains a well-known blind spot in the search for near-Earth asteroids — and 2023 NT1 is hardly the first stealthy space rock to slip past our detection.

The asteroid will pass by Friday and Saturday on a track that scientists suggest is slightly less than half the average distance to the moon from Earth — which is still 174,650 kilometers, or ...

The major lunar standstill. The strawberry moon is part of what's called a major lunar standstill. This occurs once every 18.6 years when the moon's orbit aligns just right with the Earth's tilt.

NASA says Bennu asteroid sample shows evidence of water, carbon 00:24. An asteroid will whiz harmlessly past Earth this weekend. With the right equipment and timing, you just might spot it.

It is how Jupiter currently heats up its moon Io, the most volcanically active spot in the solar system. ... Astronomers have long known that the Earth and Moon are younger than 4.6 billion years, ...