A Southwest Research Institute-led study has proposed a connection between a specific collision in the main asteroid belt and ...

A catastrophic asteroid breakup may have triggered a huge wave of impacts across the inner solar system about 800 million ...

Moon impact 3.5 billion years ago reveals hidden Solar System history through tiny mineral grains. The discovery shows asteroid bombardment continued long after the Late Heavy Bombardment period.

The Moon’s surface is continuously bombarded by the solar wind – a stream of electrically charged particles ejected by the Sun. These high-energy ions can knock atoms out of the Moon’s uppermost layer ...

BEIJING, 22 August (BelTA - China Daily) - A study of lunar samples retrieved by the Chang'e 6 mission has dated the formation of the Apollo basin to 4.16 billion years ago, meaning the onset of the ...

The moon has no significant atmosphere, no weather, and no wind. Yet it faces an invisible bombardment more relentless than any terrestrial storm, a constant rain of micrometeoroids, tiny fragments of ...

BEIJING, 12 May (BelTA - Xinhua) - Using lunar samples collected by the Chang'e-6 mission, Chinese scientists have discovered a significant shift in the types of asteroids bombarding the Earth-moon ...