SPOKANE, Wash. - The family of 23-year-old Peterson Kamo, who was killed by a police officer earlier this year, said officers didn't take the time to fully understand the situation before they shot ...

Benjamin Sharkey, a PhD student at the University of Arizona, began looking at a small, nearby space rock named Kamo'oalewa in 2017. At visible wavelengths, Kamo'oalewa was your average near-Earth ...

Tianwen 2 will deliver pieces of the odd asteroid Kamo'oalewa to Earth in 2027, if all goes to plan. China's latest deep-space mission is underway. The Tianwen 2 asteroid-comet probe lifted off on ...

Normally, near-Earth objects (NEOs) are either asteroids or comets that are gravitationally influenced enough by nearby planets to enter Earth’s neighborhood. However, in April 2016, a group of ...

"Like detectives, we used all known information regarding this Kamo‘oalewa and the lunar surface to derive a scenario for the origin of this object, starting from the impact that produced the Giordano ...

The asteroid Kamo'oalewa may have been ejected by a massive impact on Earth's moon, a new simulation has revealed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

A small piece of the moon may be orbiting the sun alongside Earth. This object, called Kamo‘oalewa, has an unexpected composition that hints it may have been chipped off the moon and tossed into orbit ...