RR5 is due to skim past at a distance of 130,000 miles away from Earth, nearly twice as close as the Moon at 240,000 miles.

An asteroid that was discovered very recently zoomed past Earth at a distance that is 100 times closer than the moon or five ...

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After the DART spacecraft made contact with Dimorphos last year, the space rock's orbit is declining more than expected, ...

The space rock was too small to pose any danger. A newly discovered space rock about 6.5 feet wide (2 meters) zipped past Earth today at a distance five times closer than GPS satellites orbit.

Screaming into Earth's atmosphere Sunday at 7 miles per second, a precious ½-pound sample of rocks and dust from an asteroid ...

A NASA spacecraft zooming toward Earth is on track to fling a capsule the size of an automobile tire onto a Utah bombing ...

NASA's first effort to retrieve samples from an asteroid will send a capsule that contains extraterrestrial pebbles and dust ...

Sept. 20 (UPI) --NASA has scheduled coverage of its first asteroid sampling mission's return to Earth. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security -- Regolith ...

Sep. 18, 2023 — A team recently calculated that most of the Moon's permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) are at most around 3.4 billion years old and can contain relatively young deposits of water ...

This orbital diagram from CNEOS’s close approach viewer shows 2023 BU’s trajectory – in red – during its close approach with ...