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 ...
These simulations helped the team narrow their candidates to the moon's trailing hemisphere, facing away from Earth. Once they honed in on that area, the search narrowed even further to a few lunar ...
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 ...
Craters of the Moon, located southwest of Arco, will be hosting several celebratory events over the summer as they recognize ...
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 ...