A large asteroid, 2003 MH4, will pass by Earth on May 24. It is about the size of the Eiffel Tower. The asteroid will travel ...

An asteroid over three football fields in size, designated 387746 (2003 MH4), is set to pass Earth closely tomorrow. , ...

Learn more about how this hydrothermal system may have provided life on Earth with vital nutrients after the dino-killing ...

The asteroid will pass at a distance of 6.68 million kilometres from Earth, which is roughly 17 times closer than the distance between Earth and the Moon. Astronomers consider such proximity a close ...

MH4, as tall as the Eiffel Tower, will safely pass Earth on May 24. Though not a threat, it's classified as potentially ...

While the moon once had a weak magnetic field generated by a small molten core, the team's research suggests it likely wouldn ...

Just days earlier, on May 21, a smaller asteroid named 2025 KF made an even closer pass — just 111,000 kilometres from Earth, ...

A combination of a dynamo-generated magnetic field and massive impacts could explain the highly magnetized rocks in some ...

Over at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the Shanxi Province, a CZ-6A launched Yaogan 40 Group 02 into polar orbit on ...

Scientists may have solved the mystery of why the moon shows ancient signs of magnetism although it has no magnetic field today. An impact, such as from a large asteroid, could have generated a cloud ...

There have been proposed hypotheses as to how the Moon could have developed a core dynamo. For instance, a 2022 analysis suggested that in the first billion years, when the Moon was covered in molten ...

At the very edge of our solar system, beyond the grasp of Neptune and even past the icy sprawl of Pluto’s domain, a new ...