Earth’s moon may have taken a hit in the past, as scientists have identified an asteroid that they believe to be a giant boulder of lunar origin soaring through our orbit. The asteroid was first ...

The asteroid is now the smallest object ever observed by Webb – an advanced telescope launched in 2021 outfitted ... such a hit from an asteroid of that size, NASA assures that the moon's ...

After months of tracking and refining Asteroid 2024 YR4's orbit, NASA scientists were able to rule out an Earth strike. There ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, first launched in 2021 to ... has a smaller asteroid orbiting it, as originally reported by Scientific American. That’s right. It’s basically a moon with its own ...

but if it did hit the Moon, it really would be pretty spectacular!” The asteroid is estimated to be 53 and 67 meters (174-220 feet) based on observations from JWST, consistent with what the Keck ...

While flying past a small main-belt asteroid called Dinkinesh the spacecraft found an even smaller “moon” orbiting it ... Lucy launched in 2021, and on November 1, 2023, it performed its ...

Scientists think that Kamo'oalewa became dislodged when an asteroid hit the Moon at some point between ... the size of the Statue of Liberty. In 2021, scientists at the University of Arizona ...