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Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 24, 2023 - In 2021, a team of University of Arizona astronomers suggested that a recently discovered near-Earth asteroid, Kamo`oalewa, could be a chunk of the moon. Two years after the striking discovery, anot

Two years after the striking discovery that a near-Earth asteroid could be a chunk of the moon, another UArizona research group has found that a rare pathway could have enabled this to happen.

For millions of years, one of the largest power law distributions known in nature has governed marine life -- that's until humans came along.

Dr. Jeremy Wood, an astrophysicist of Hazard, presented his session, “Searching for Primordial Uranus Trojans,” at the 55th Annual Conference of the International Division of Planetary Sciences in San Antonio,

Space junk pollution could spell severe problems for the Earth's upper atmosphere as it fills with rare metals, a new study suggests.

West Lafayette IN (SPX) Oct 17, 2023 - The Space Age is leaving fingerprints on one of the most remote parts of the planet - the stratosphere - which has potential implications for climate, the ozone layer and the continued habitability

Space debris burns up on re-entry and deposits metal vapor in the ozone-hosting stratosphere. Scientists are concerned.

NASA has a tradition of naming space telescopes after astronomers who lived so long ago that the concept of space telescopes was, at best, on the far fringes of science fiction.

For planetary scientist Phil Bland, who has spent most of his career analysing the primordial dust contained in meteorites to better understand the history of

The asteroid "Bennu" measures roughly one-third of a mile at its equator.