CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved ...

Two canyons that splay out from a vast asteroid crater on the moon may have been quickly formed by chains of impacts that ...

A second clue came from observing how the object ... the number of known asteroids thought to originate from the moon. Asteroid 469219 Kamo'oalewa was found in 2016 with an Earth-like orbit ...

So far, 2024 PT5 is just the second object in an Earth ... surface after something slammed into the moon. The discovery of Kamo’oalewa excited asteroid scientists who were eager to find more ...

2024 PT5 is the second near-Earth asteroid scientists suspect was ejected from the moon's surface, the first being 469219 Kamo'oalewa, which a different team of scientists have traced to an old impact ...

The discovery of 2024 PT5 makes it the second space rock whizzing through ... “This is a story about the moon as told by asteroid scientists,” Kareta said in a statement.

Potential Lunar Connections 2024 PT5 is now the second known asteroid possibly from the Moon. The first, 469219 Kamo’oalewa, was discovered in 2016. These findings open doors for further lunar ...

This is the second time scientists have linked a near-Earth object to the moon, after a 2021 study identified ... in Arizona who led the research. The asteroid 2024 PT5 was probably the result ...

Fragments of the asteroid Bennu, carefully collected and ... including on the dwarf planet Ceres and on Saturn’s moon Enceladus, says Julie Castillo-Rogez, a planetary scientist at NASA ...