Earth’s “second moon”—as asteroid called Kamo’oalewa—appears to have come from the moon itself. Scientists have concluded ...
Scientists turned into cosmic crime scene investigators to reconstruct the impact that sent Earth's "quasi-moon" Kamo'oalewa ...
Less than a decade after discovering a near-Earth asteroid with lunar origins, an international group of scientists says they have determined where this mysterious object came from on the moon's ...
The overall mission duration will be 53 days from launch to touchdown. The 8,200 kilograms heavy sample return vehicle will ...
The provenance of asteroid Kamo'oalewa, discovered in 2016, is something of a mystery, but astronomers believe it may be a chunk of the Moon. A new analysis has even identified the crater from which ...
AN asteroid is believed to have broken off the moon and scientists have found additional proof that it could have been possible. Scientists discovered a giant crater on the moon and believe this ...
"This would directly link a specific asteroid in space to its source crater on the Moon and suggests the existence of more small asteroids composed of lunar material yet to be discovered in near ...
Named after a 16th-century Italian intellectual whose cosmological views were so ahead of his time that he was burned at the stake for heresy, this crater is located on the far side of the Moon ...
In 2016, the U.S. Geological Service conducted a study showing that pikas, small herbivores that typically live in high ...
Pahoehoe lava at Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve. Three special kinds of pahoehoe may be observed in the Craters of the Moon Lava Field: Slabby pahoehoe is made up of jumbled ...