Rare near-Earth asteroid Kamo’oalewa may have been created several million years ago when something slammed into the moon and ...
Asteroid hunters have identified 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids using cutting-edge tech that could potentially stave ...
With the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images of the night sky to reveal that the ...
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 ...
A near-Earth asteroid has been traced to a huge crater on the Moon. Space rock 2016 HO3, also known as Kamo'oalewa, is ...
Earth’s “second moon”—as asteroid called Kamo’oalewa—appears to have come from the moon itself. Scientists have concluded ...
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 ...
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 ...