Will the moon hit Earth?

Short answer: Technically it's possible that the Earth and Moon could collide in the very distant future, but it's very unlikely. It's certainly not going to happen while any of us are alive. Long answer: The Moon is in a stable orbit around Earth.
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How long would it take the Moon to fall to Earth?

4.83 days, if you stopped its sideways motion instantly and let it fall.
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Will the Earth crash into the sun?

Unless a rogue object passes through our Solar System and ejects the Earth, this inspiral will continue, eventually leading the Earth to fall into our Sun's stellar corpse when the Universe is some ten quadrillion times its current age.
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What planet crashed into the Earth?

Theia is a hypothesized ancient planet in the early Solar System that, according to the giant-impact hypothesis, collided with the early Earth around 4.5 billion years ago, with some of the resulting ejected debris gathering to form the Moon.
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Could we survive if the Moon crashed into Earth?

What would happen if the Moon crashed into Earth? Everything on Earth would die. The only way to survive this collision would be to leave Earth. The Moon and Earth would both be destroyed; the Earth would probably be split into numerous smaller pieces.
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Is the Moon going to explode?

This means that unless you deliver that much energy in one go, the Moon will just crack apart and reform into a sphere. To blow it up, you'll need to drill mine shafts hundreds of kilometres deep, all over the Moon, and drop a total of 600 billion of the largest nuclear bombs ever built down them.
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Can we live without the moon?

It is the pull of the Moon's gravity on the Earth that holds our planet in place. Without the Moon stabilising our tilt, it is possible that the Earth's tilt could vary wildly. It would move from no tilt (which means no seasons) to a large tilt (which means extreme weather and even ice ages).
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Would humans survive if the moon exploded?

The debris striking Earth would still be destructive, but would impact our world with less than 1% the total energy of a comparably sized asteroid. If the chunks hitting us were small enough, humanity could easily survive.
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What crashed into the Moon 2020?

An old rocket booster once thought to be the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9, but now believed to be from the Chinese Chang'e 5-T1 mission (although China denies this), slammed into the moon's far side at over 5,000 miles per hour around 4:25 a.m. PT.
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What if the sun disappeared for 1 second?

Eternal night would fall over the planet and Earth will start traveling into interstellar space at 18 miles per second. Within 2 seconds, the full moon reflecting the sun's rays on the dark side of the planet would also go dark.
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What if Earth had rings?

At the equator, the rings would appear to divide the sun, casting a dramatic shadow over half the world. Likewise, the rings themselves would cast shadows on Earth.
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Will the sun explode?

While the full death of the Sun is still trillions of years away, some scientists believe the current phase of the Sun's life cycle will end as soon as 5 billion years from now. At that point, the massive star at the center of our Solar System will have eaten through most of its hydrogen core.
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What if the Moon was cheese?

A cheese Moon wouldn't pull on the oceans as strongly and so the Earth's rotation wouldn't have been slowed as much. Consequently the Moon wouldn't have receded from us as much either. Sitting closer to us, it would appear bigger in the sky and still deprive us from a perfect solar eclipse.
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What would happen if the Earth fell?

If Earth stopped rotating and fell to a standstill, humanity would be in trouble. If the planet stopped suddenly, everything on the surface would be destroyed, as the atmosphere, oceans and anything not nailed down kept spinning.
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Can the Moon be destroyed?

There is no process that could destroy the Moon. If there were, the issue for the Earth would be what that process would also do to our planet at the same time.
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What if Earth had 2 moons?

If Earth had two moons, it would be catastrophic. An extra moon would lead to larger tides and wipe out major cities like New York and Singapore. The extra pull of the moons would also slow down the Earth's rotation, causing the day to get longer.
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Will the Earth run out of oxygen?

Our Sun is middle-aged, with about five billion years left in its lifespan. However, it's expected to go through some changes as it gets older, as we all do — and these changes will affect our planet.
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What year will the Earth be destroyed?

This means Earth will likely still be vaporised by the growing star. But don't worry, this scorching destruction of Earth is a long way off: about 7.59 billion years in the future, according to some calculations.
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What if the sun was a black hole?

Our Sun is too small a star to end its life as a black hole. But what would happen if the Sun were suddenly replaced with a black hole of the same mass? Contrary to popular belief, the Solar System would not be sucked in: a solar-mass black hole would exert no more gravitational pull than our Sun.
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How long can humans survive without the sun?

Within a few days, however, the temperatures would begin to drop, and any humans left on the planet's surface would die soon after. Within two months, the ocean's surface would freeze over, but it would take another thousand years for our seas to freeze solid.
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Is there oxygen without sun?

There would be no oxygen on Earth were it not for sunlight; the key component in photosynthesis. Now researchers have made the surprising discovery that oxygen is also produced without sunlight, possibly deep below the ocean surface.
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Who owns the moon?

The short answer is that no one owns the Moon. That's because of a piece of international law. The Outer Space Treaty of 1967, put forward by the United Nations, says that space belongs to no one country.
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Is there an asteroid coming in 2022?

Asteroid 2022 EB5 is noteworthy in that it was detected before impact. This is only the 5th successfully predicted impact in history.
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