There have been proposed hypotheses as to how the Moon could have developed a core dynamo. For instance, a 2022 analysis ...

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A team of scientists led by Issac Narrett at MIT has put forth a new explanation for the mysterious magnetization: asteroid impacts generated Moon-spanning clouds of plasma that temporarily ...

China’s Tianwen-2 mission has launched to explore an asteroid that may be a piece of the moon, as well as an active asteroid ...

A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth today (May 21), passing within one-third of the Earth-moon distance. The close approach will happen at ...

Although the moon and the asteroid Vesta are very different, two NASA studies use the same technique to reveal new details about the interiors of both. Using their model, the researchers produced ...

led a study published in November 2021 suggesting that the Ferris wheel-size asteroid may be a massive boulder ejected from the moon by an impact. The name Kamoʻoalewa comes from a Hawaiian ...

New computer simulations suggest a massive asteroid impact billions of years ago may have briefly amplified the moon's old, weak magnetic field, leaving behind a magnetic imprint still detectable ...

Marine fossils and rock fragments found in southeastern Missouri appear to have been deposited there by a massive wave generated by the asteroid hitting what is now Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.