If you have a telescope and a knack for spotting cosmic fireworks, NASA needs your help. NASA-funded scientists are inviting amateur astronomers to join the Impact Flash project, an effort to track ...

An astronomer has captured what is believed to be the first recorded video of a lunar impact flash in Ireland. On Friday (12 December), Andrew Marshall-Lee, a final-year PhD student, recorded the ...

The Artemis II crew may have finished their voyage around the moon, but for first-year Johns Hopkins University student Reba Prabhakhar, the work is just beginning. As a member of visiting researcher ...

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Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit Earth, but it has forced planetary defense experts to confront a different kind of worst case: a significant chance that a “city killer” rock could slam into the Moon ...

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The space rock has a 4.3% chance of striking the Moon in six years—and it could generate a flash nearly as bright as Venus. Reading time 2 minutes A large rocky asteroid will make a close approach to ...

A colossal ancient impact may have reshaped the Moon far more deeply than scientists once realized. By analyzing rare lunar rocks brought back by China’s Chang’e-6 mission from the Moon’s largest ...

An astronomer has captured what is believed to be the first recorded video of a lunar impact flash in Ireland. On Friday (12 December), Andrew Marshall-Lee, a final-year PhD student, recorded the ...