Rare near-Earth asteroid Kamo’oalewa may have been created several million years ago when something slammed into the moon and ...
The asteroid is slated to be a target for the Chinese mission Tianwen-2, which will bring a sample from the asteroid back to ...
Asteroid hunters have identified 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids using cutting-edge tech that could potentially stave ...
(CNN) — An unusual asteroid traveling near Earth is thought to be a chunk of the moon, but exactly how it ended up zooming through the solar system has remained a mystery. Now, researchers say they’ve ...
A 2,000-foot asteroid is set to pass by earth Monday morning and if you don't catch it now, you'll have to wait more than a year to see it again. But you are going to need a telescope to see the ...
Kamo'oalewa, a 131- to 328-foot-wide (40 to 100 meters) near-Earth object (NEO), was liberated by an asteroid impact between 1 million and 10 million years ago, a smashup that created the moon's ...
The space rock has been classified as a near-Earth object (NEO), with data published on Nasa's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). According to the website the asteroid, known simply as ...
Nature Astronomy study links asteroid 469219 Kamo'oalewa to potential lunar fragment, supported by similarities to lunar rock. Tianwen-2 mission could confirm its lunar origin, aiding in ...
We may earn a commission from links on this page. A view of the interior of Giordano Bruno crater by the Lunar Reconnoissance Orbiter. Image: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University For nearly a decade ...
Angled view of the Giordano Bruno, Lunar crater, 2016. The height and sharpness of the rim are ... [+] evident, as well as the crater floor's rolling hills and rugged nature. (Photo by: Universal ...
Earth's "quasi-moon" was likely blasted away from the actual moon relatively recently in the solar system's history, a new study suggests. Kamo'oalewa, a 131- to 328-foot-wide (40 to 100 meters ...