The large asteroid labeled 2013 NK4 orbits the sun every 378 days, according to NASA. It's 2,000 feet long and should safely ...
A newly discovered space rock will harmlessly pass by Earth today. Still, at less than a tenth the distance to the moon, ...
Kamo'oalewa, a 131- to 328-foot-wide (40 to 100 meters) near-Earth object (NEO), was liberated by an asteroid impact between 1 million and 10 million years ago, a smashup that created the moon's ...
It would appear that the so-called "great instability" event that wreaked chaos among the planets, sending the gas giants careening through space until they settled into the orbits we know today ...
More information: Yifei Jiao et al, Asteroid Kamo'oalewa's journey from the lunar Giordano Bruno crater to Earth 1:1 resonance, Nature Astronomy (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-024-02258-z Journal ...
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 ...
When the e-scooter company Matt Gialich used to work for had to pause production owing to a shortage of platinum, a key component for the microprocessor that translates commands from the controls ...
A 2,000-foot asteroid is set to pass by earth Monday morning and if you don't catch it now, you'll have to wait more than a year to see it again. But you are going to need a telescope to see the ...
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 ...