Astrobotic will let its lander burn up in the Earth's atmosphere when it comes back to our planet. The spacecraft's mission to the moon was scuppered shortly after launch due to a fuel leak.

A brilliant flash on the Moon's dark side, captured by Irish astronomers on December 12, 2025, likely signals a meteoroid ...

The moon did indeed coalesce out of tiny bits of pulverized planet blasted into space by a catastrophic collision 4.5 billion years ago, two new studies suggest. The new research potentially plugs a ...

SpaceX is about to leave a permanent mark in space. Astronomers said this week that a piece of a Falcon 9 rocket that was launched in February 2015 is currently on a trajectory to collide with the ...

A recently discovered asteroid, about the size of a small building, could strike the Moon on December 22, 2032. While the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The moon is about to get walloped by 3 tons of space junk, a punch that will carve out a crater that could fit several semitractor-trailers. The leftover rocket will smash ...

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Billions of years ago, a version of our Earth that looks very different than the one we live on today was hit by an object about the size of Mars, called Theia – and out of that collision the Moon was ...

mm hmm. No, no. Mm hmm, mm hmm, mm hmm. It's a pretty decent impact. But really nothing to worry about. Nasa did a mission before where they intentionally hit a rocket on the moon and got the plume ...

The wayward booster left not one but two impact craters on the lunar surface, suggesting there was something undisclosed on the Chang'e 5-T1 mission. Reading time 3 minutes The surface of the Moon is ...

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Most theories claim the Moon formed out of the debris of a collision between the Earth and an object about the size of Mars, called Theia, coalescing in orbit over months or years. A new simulation ...