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Meteor impact may have triggered massive Grand Canyon landslide 56,000 years ago
A meteorite impact thousands of years ago may have triggered a landslide in the Grand Canyon and reshaped the Colorado River that runs through the national park.
The Vera Rubin Observatory could find dozens of interstellar objects
As astronomers rush to study a newly discovered comet from beyond our solar system, a powerful new observatory may turn rare interstellar sightings into routine events.
'The future for this baby planet doesn’t look great.' Exoplanet is shrinking before the X-ray eyes of NASA's Chandra space telescope
Astronomers have used the Chandra X-ray telescope to observe an exoplanet as it disintegrates because its parent star is bombarding it with radiation.
A lunar eclipse steals the show in a colorful sky | Space photo of the day for July 18, 2025
A lunar eclipse was seen over the U.S. Naval Observatory Deep South Telescope in Chile.
A doomed exoplanet is caught in a 'death spiral' around its star. Can it survive?
A massive doomed exoplanet on a death spiral toward its parent star has three possible catastrophic fates.
Scientists extracted water and oxygen from moon dust using sunlight. Could it work on the lunar surface?
Soil excavated from the moon could be used to produce oxygen and methane, which could be used by lunar settlers for breathing and for rocket fuel.
Lunar lava tubes on Earth? China completes underground moon simulation test area (video)
China has taken a new step in its long-term planning for lunar exploration with the completion of a "simulated moon underground space."
2 billion-year-old moon rock found in Africa reveals secret lunar history
The basaltic meteorite is a piece of lunar rock that formed in a lava flow 2.35 billion years ago, long after volcanism on the moon was supposed to have ended.
