Asteroids might seem like peaceful drifters suspended in space, but they’re really disturbed, spinning and tumbling in complex motion that holds clues to their past. A new study presented at the ...

Most near-Earth asteroids are thought to drift in from the main asteroid belt. But a small subset may have a much closer origin: the moon. One intriguing example is 469219 Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3), an ...