Asteroid impact on moon blasted two grand canyons in 10 minutes
The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of Earth's natural wonders, carved out over millions of years by the gradual erosion power of the Colorado River. Close to the moon's south pole are two canyons each comparable in size to the Grand Canyon that were born in a much different process.
An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.
Asteroid 2024 PT5, which almost became a temporary mini-moon to Earth, was recently found to be a broken-off part of the moon ...
2024 PT5 is the second near-Earth asteroid scientists suspect was ejected from the moon's surface, the first being 469219 ...
The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...
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A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...
On Wednesday, an unprecedented memo from the International Asteroid Warning Network reached the United Nations Office for ...
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When is an asteroid not an asteroid? When it's Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, it turns out.The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla Roadster launched into space years ago by SpaceX ...
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