Rare near-Earth asteroid Kamo’oalewa may have been created several million years ago when something slammed into the moon and ...
Less than a decade after discovering a near-Earth asteroid with lunar origins, an international group of scientists says they ...
The path of an asteroid will soon be coming nearly as close to Earth as our Moon’s orbit. Though some consider a collision ...
(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 ...
Earth’s “second moon”—as asteroid called Kamo’oalewa—appears to have come from the moon itself. Scientists have concluded ...
The Earth had a near miss with an asteroid that left a 14-mile wide crater on the Moon - with the impact creating a "weird quasi moon" that was discovered in 2016, scientists belive. Space rock ...
While small asteroids keep zipping past Earth at fairly regular intervals some of the bigger ones are not that frequent. And now, US space agency NASA says that one asteroid that is as big as 280 ...
A total solar eclipse takes shape today, April 8, when an overlap between the sun and the moon is expected to darken daylight skies over parts of North America and ask awestruck Earthlings to ...
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 ...
Asteroids are scary space rocks and they are whizzing around in space in an uncontrolled manner. They can be very destructive, as was proved by the one that crashed onto Earth 66 million years ago ...
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 ...
The big day is coming soon: On Monday afternoon, April 8, a total eclipse of the sun will cross over a dozen states as it traverses from Texas to Maine. Millions of people are expected to travel ...