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NASA experts explain why a passing asteroid isn't cause for concern, while revealing how often Earth encounters space rocks ...
NASA reports that asteroid 2025 ME92 will soon pass Earth. It measures about 95 feet wide and moves at 11,831 miles per hour.
But 2025 OW isn't the only asteroid approaching us in the coming days. NASA is also tracking another airplane-sized space ...
The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Measuring roughly 95 feet across, the rock belongs to the Aten group. These asteroids have orbits that cross Earth’s path ...
China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.
The team of physicists from The University of Arizona say they were motivated by the possibility of Compact Ultradense ...
Returning NASA’s first asteroid sample collected in space to Earth has been years in the making. Here’s a look at the mission milestones so far — and what lies ahead.
World Asteroid Day 2025: Watch live views of near-Earth asteroids for free online on June 30 "The Virtual Telescope Project will show it live, online, just at the fly-by time.
An asteroid measuring as wide as 295 feet is possibly headed right toward Earth, but don’t run for cover just yet. A NASA-funded telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first spotted the asteroid ...
“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this probability was still slowly rising as the asteroid faded out of view,” the ...