If You’re Explaining Something, You Don’t Need These

Extra words. Unless you’re being paid by the word, maybe.

Researchers spotted the trend while surveying impact craters on both Earth and our closest celestial neighbor, the moon. 

https://www.quantamagazine.org/asteroid-rate-jumped-in-solar-systems-past-20190117

Wordiness is not a virtue, folks. Be concise! And write for the reader. (You didn’t need to be told what the moon is, did you???)

Harrumpf.

PS—just in case, here’s a picture of the moon. Look familiar?