The 2,000-foot-wide asteroid 2013 NK4 just made its closest approach to Earth in recorded history, sailing by at about eight ...
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Skywatchers will be able to get a glimpse of the asteroid 2013 NK4 in the night sky this week if they use a telescope.
It gets so close that the line on NASA's trajectory map for the asteroid actually passes through Earth as it crosses the ...
Huge chunks of an asteroid that NASA sent a spacecraft slamming into may one day collide with Mars, new research has found.
In The Asteroid Hunter, Dante Lauretta chronicles the quest to retrieve a sample from Bennu, which is one of the large ...
2013 NK4, for example, made its closest approach on Monday, harmlessly passing our planet by more than eight times the ...
Sending SpaceHopper to the nearest asteroid isn’t exactly a cost-effective or simple way to conduct a trial run. But thanks ...