The space rock created a brief but brilliant flash that was captured from Earth. A Japanese astronomer captured the telltale flash of a meteorite impacting the moon, causing a brief flash on our ...

NASA's moon blast called a smashing success The search for water No light show, but rocket hits the crater as planned By David Perlman , Chronicle Science Editor Oct 10, 2009 ...

How Apollo moon rocks reveal the epic history of the cosmos. ... And that young star was still surrounded by bits of debris clumping together, smashing into one another, forming the planets.

Potentially dangerous small space rocks are smashing into the Moon a lot more often than was expected, according to an ongoing NASA study. "We've now seen 11 and possibly 12 lunar impacts since we ...

NASA issued a statement about a “city-killer” asteroid (2024 YR4) that they said had a 1.2% chance of slamming into Earth on ...

Two similarly-sized canyons on the moon got carved by flying rocks in about ten minutes. That's because these two canyons formed in the wake of an asteroid or comet smashing into the moon, ...

Astronomers have captured the moment a lump of rock slammed into the moon with so much force that the bright flash could be seen from earth with the naked eye. The 400kg meteorite, travelling at ...

"The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4%, and this ...

On July 20, 1969, as Apollo astronaut Neil Armstrong climbed down the ladder from the “Eagle” lunar landing module, he found himself surrounded by a sea of grey — an […] ...

Not all moon rocks are created equal. Minuscule glass beads brought back from the moon by Apollo astronauts seemed to show that there were far more objects smashing into the moon in the last 500 ...