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Webb telescope data shows a once-risky asteroid will safely pass Earth and the Moon in 2032, removing all impact concerns.

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles within this cloud collided and clumped together, driven by gravity and ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4, which was once thought to be on a collision course with Earth, may still pose a threat to the planet. There is still a chance the space rock could smash into the moon, and the ...

Hubble Space Telescope images have revealed a second massive collision between planetary bodies orbiting the nearby star ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The moon is covered in craters like Daedalus, as seen by the Apollo 11 crew on the moon's far side. - NASA The asteroid known as ...

When worlds collide…suns act squirrely. Astronomers have witnessed a rare and violent cosmic crash between two planets, and they say the fallout could teach us about the formation of our world. The ...

Looking ahead: Ongoing simulations aim to reconstruct the full formation history of Saturn's inner moons, while NASA's ...

The building-size asteroid 2024 YR4 has a small chance of striking the moon in 2032 — and a new study predicts it could also put on a spectacular show for skywatchers by creating thousands of impact ...