Rare near-Earth asteroid Kamo’oalewa may have been created several million years ago when something slammed into the moon and sent a chunk of it flying into space.

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 surface.

The asteroid is slated to be a target for the Chinese mission Tianwen-2, which will bring a sample from the asteroid back to Earth.

A recent study has shed light on the origin of the near-Earth asteroid known as Kamo’oalewa, revealing that it likely originated from the Giordano Bru

A near-Earth asteroid has been traced to a huge crater on the Moon. Space rock 2016 HO3, also known as Kamo'oalewa, is thought to have been blasted off the lunar surface, leaving the 14-mile-wide Giordano Bruno crater on the moon's far side.

When scientists discovered the asteroid Kamo’oalewa in 2016, they almost immediately suspected it might have once been a part of the Moon. It’s a sound theory — many of Kamo’oalewa’s properties (its density,