XD, which was discovered by the Spacewatch group at Kitt Peak Observatory in Arizona in 1994, will come as close as 19.2 ...
A skyscraper-sized asteroid dubbed "potentially hazardous" will safely zoom by Earth this month, and you can watch as it ...
Another smaller asteroid named ... 2023 HO18 is due to pass a lot closer at a mere 290,000 miles. This is equal to around 1.2 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
A newly discovered asteroid has been detected and is said to be a quasi-moon, or fake moon, of Earth. The fake moon is ...
HOUSTON—NASA is progressing toward an October launch of Psyche, an approximately $1 billion science mission to orbit a ...
That might sound far but it's about a fifth of the distance to the Moon, scientists said, and a pretty close call. Called Asteroid 2019 OK, the rock measured between ... Earth asteroids but few ...
NASA said an asteroid the size of an airliner will pass close to Earth on Tuesday ... which lies between Mars and Jupiter. Occasionally, asteroids will take an orbit that takes them deep inside ...
which is ten times the distance between Earth and the moon. The asteroid will also have another closer pass, but it will still be at a safe distance of 19.09 million kilometres away from Earth.
Fortunately, larger asteroid impacts are rare, with the estimated time between strikes ... million km) of Earth in 2022, has around a 0.0151% chance of coming within one Earth-moon distance ...
The idea of an asteroid the size of the Elizabeth Tower in London will pass the Earth at 8pm ... which share the orbit of Jupiter, and near-Earth asteroids, which have orbits that bring them ...
2023 FW13 is a quasi-moon - a subcategory of near-Earth asteroids that orbit the sun but remain ... Explained: The difference between an asteroid, meteorite and other space rocks An asteroid ...
NASA said an asteroid the size of an airliner will pass close to Earth on Tuesday ... which lies between Mars and Jupiter. Occasionally, asteroids will take an orbit that takes them deep inside ...
