The moon's influence is huge, both for human civilization and life as a whole. Its destruction would have catastrophic ...

The Moon has always been our silent partner — controlling tides, guiding night skies, and stabilizing the planet itself. But what would happen if it were destroyed? The fragments would rain down in ...

Stowaways in a small car-sized asteroid that crashed in northern Sudan in 2008 have revealed what happened to a mysterious dwarf planet that is dusting Earth with a rare type of meteorites. That dwarf ...