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Scientists say they’ve traced the origins of a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid to the far...
7 News Miami· 42 minutes agoThe space rock, known as 2016 HO3, is a rare quasi-satellite — a type of near-Earth asteroid that...
Earth’s quasi-moon Asteroid Kamo'oalewa likely blasted out of this giant Moon crater
Fox Weather via Yahoo News· 19 hours agoLess than a decade after discovering a near-Earth asteroid, scientists say they have determined...
Asteroid hunters spot 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids — more than were discovered by all of...
NY Post via Yahoo News· 2 days agoAsteroid hunters have identified 27,500 overlooked near-earth asteroids using a cutting-edge tech...
Earth’s New ‘Second Moon’ Is As Big As The Statue Of Liberty—And Scientists Just Found Its Origin
Forbes· 5 days agoEarth’s “second moon”—an asteroid called Kamo’oalewa—appears to have come from the moon itself....
Near-Earth asteroid traced to huge crater on Moon
KTBS Shreveport· 3 days agoA 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 ...
Team cracks mystery of asteroid's origin
Futurity· 2 days agoFor the first time, scientists have traced an asteroid to its exact place of origin—a particular crater on the moon. Unlike most near-Earth< ...
Nuclear Weapons and Space Objects
Arms Control Association· 18 hours agoFortunately...new U.S. observatories, the ground-based Vera Rubin in Chile and the space-based Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor, should catalog nearly all ...
Formation - NASA Science
NASA· 2 hours agoHow did the Moon form? Several theories about our Moon’s formation vie for dominance, but almost all share that point in common: near the time of the...
Asteroid that broke up over Berlin was fastest-spinning one ever seen
New Scientist· 6 days agoSome pieces survived the fireball and were recovered. Maxime Devogele at the European Space Agency’s...
Rogue Planets, Abundant Asteroids: Space Is More Crowded Than We Thought
Forbes· 2 days agoThe more we look into space with increasingly sensitive tools like NASA’s James Webb Telescope...