The moon’s thin atmosphere is made by constant bombardment of meteorites
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Scientists say they have found the origin of a potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroid to the far side of the moon
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Scientists say they have found the origin of a potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroid to the far side of the moon
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on exciting discoveries, scientific advances and more. An unusual asteroid traveling near …
Earth’s strange ‘quasi-moon’ Kamo’oalewa is a fragment that has erupted from a large lunar crater
Earth’s “quasi-moon” likely moved away from the actual moon recently in the solar system’s history, a new study suggests. Kamo’oalewa, a 131 to 328-foot-wide (40 …