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Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Produced, Edited, and Narrated by: David Ladd (AIMM) Animations by: Walt Feimer ...
Asteroid 2025 OL1, about the size of a small plane, will safely pass Earth on July 30, 2025, at a distance of 1.29 million ...
Asteroid 2022 YS5, a building-sized space rock, will safely pass Earth on July 17, prompting NASA and ISRO to emphasize the ...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captured this image of asteroid Dinkinesh as it flew by at 10,000 mph. First images returned by Lucy reveal the asteroid is actually a binary pair! Learn more: https://t ...
The flyby of Dinkinesh is in addition to another main-belt asteroid, 52246 Donaldjohanson, that it will fly by in 2025. Lucy will then fly by several Trojan asteroids at Jupiter’s distance from ...
Asteroid 2025 OU1, about 140 feet in diameter, will safely pass Earth in 2025. While it poses no immediate threat, scientists ...
Even when skies seem calm, space has its surprises. An asteroid the size of an airplane is flying close. While there's no cause for alarm, eyes are firmly fixed above.
A large asteroid zipped past Earth last week, in a relatively rare event that astronomers described as one "very close encounter" with our planet.. The space rock, called 2023 DZ2 by NASA, reached ...
NASA's asteroid-hopping Lucy probe on course for 1st space rock flyby in November : Read more The author repeatedly says that Lucy will stop at various asteroids, which is simply not true. Reply ...
Apophis will come to within 20,000 miles of Earth’s surface in 2029, presenting an extraordinary opportunity to study the asteroid from up close.
Apophis asteroid to fly by Earth in April 2029; ... — NASA is considering repurposing a recently shelved mission to study the asteroid Apophis ahead of its Earth flyby later this decade.