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NASA says asteroid 2025 MV89 will fly safely past Earth on July 4, 2025. It is the size of a large airplane and is not ...
China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main ...
I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...
In 2023, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks collected on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In addition to the information about the universe gleaned from the sample ...
NASA has been tracking a house-sized asteroid in the vicinity of Earth that is hurtling through space at a zippy 42,300 miles per hour. Known as "2025 HM4," the asteroid's path brought it within a ...
The Rubin Observatory released its first magnificent images of the cosmos on Monday, June 23 — and included a special ...
An asteroid could hit Earth in 7 years. Here's how astronomers are tracking it Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big ...
NASA Tracking Football Field-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth Tomorrow. ... The building-sized 2006 WB is classified as a Near-Earth Object, or NEO, due to its proximity to our planet.
After months of tracking and refining Asteroid 2024 YR4's orbit, NASA scientists were able to rule out an Earth strike. There's no real risk to the planet in seven years or afterward, according to the ...
A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, has on average a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. While those odds of an impact are slim, astronomers are closely tracking the space rock to ...
An asteroid NASA's been tracking for nearly 25 years could impact Earth in the future, a new report reveals. First discovered in 1999, Bennu, the near-Earth asteroid, could possibly drift into the ...