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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"There's no place on Earth cold enough," Mary Hagedorn, a senior research scientist at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, told Space.com. That includes the coldest ...
The overall mission duration will be 53 days from launch to touchdown. The 8,200 kilograms heavy sample return vehicle will ...
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 ...
NASA scientists dream up a way to turn a Moon crater into a massive radio telescope. The concept relies on a large crater on the far side of the Moon, a pair of lunar landers, and a small army of ...
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 ...
A lava field can be seen with the Pioneer Mountains in the background on April 29, 2024, at Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve near Arco. On May 2, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge ...