The asteroid is slated to be a target for the Chinese mission Tianwen-2, which will bring a sample from the asteroid back to ...
Most of the newfound asteroids hover in the asteroid belt between Mars and ... within 140,000 miles (225,000 kilometers) of ...
Rare near-Earth asteroid Kamo’oalewa may have been created several million years ago when something slammed into the moon and ...
(CNN) — An unusual asteroid traveling near Earth is thought to be a chunk of the moon ... Measuring between 150 and 190 feet (46 and 58 meters) in diameter, Kamo’oalewa is about half the size of the ...
Asteroid hunters have identified 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids using cutting-edge tech that could potentially stave ...
Earth’s “second moon”—as asteroid called Kamo’oalewa—appears to have come from the moon itself. Scientists have concluded ...
The Moon reaches apogee, the farthest point from Earth in its orbit, at 10:10 P.M. EDT ... 0.5° apart — how much distance have they put between themselves in the past 11 days?
A large asteroid ... Earth. That's about 4.6 times the distance from Earth to the moon. The moon, by the way, is about 239,000 miles (384,400 kilometers) from Earth.While several small asteroids ...
The Hera mission will study the Dimorphos asteroid that was pushed off course by NASA’s DART spacecraft in 2022 ...