The trajectory of Asteroid 2023 BU as it passed by Earth (red line).Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech Our solar system is teeming withspace rocks. Fortunately,NASAand other agencies closely track asteroids passing through Earth's cosmic neighborhood, discover hundreds more each year, and haven't foun...
A diagram shows the orbit of an asteroid (white), expected to pass by earth (blue), on June 12, 2023.JPL/NASA 1994 XD might be hard to see with the naked eye because it will be passing Earth at roughly 48,000 miles per hour, according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Stud...
The Ramses spacecraft will meet Apophis before it passes Earth and accompany the asteroid during the flyby to study how it is changed by our planet's gravity. Apophis will miss Earth and astronomers have ruled out any chance the asteroid will collide with our planet for at least the ...
An asteroid the size of a football field is about to make a close pass by Earth but is not expected to hit or cause any damage, NASA said Wednesday. Coined 2014 DX110, the asteroid will be part of a rare class of objects that comes nearer than the moon, and will shave by at aroun...
Passing by the Earth at a little over one-tenth the distance to the Moon and just above the orbital altitude of communications satellites, this encounter with TC4 is being used by asteroid trackers around the world to test their ability to operate as a coordinated international asteroid warning ...
[Close-up of Blondie as a news anchor speaking, alongside an image to the left of an asteroid passing by Earth. The path of the asteroid is shown as a dashed line near the top-left, with the Moon orbiting the Earth below it.] ...
Four large asteroids will make their closest approaches to Earth on Thursday, each passing by the planet within a 24-hour time frame. Two had already zipped past early in the morning, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. But the remaining celestial objects on track to follow suit we...
An asteroid is seen passing the Earth in this artistic illustration. (photo credit: PIXABAY) An asteroid the size of around 20 bald eagles is set to have a close flyby of the Earth on Monday, May 22, NASA's asteroid tacker said. ...
2002 NN4 is small in “absolute terms,” compared to other asteroids like (52768) 1998 OR2 which passed by Earth in April this year coming in at over 6,500 feet and passing Earth by nearly 4 million miles away, according to Smithsonian Magazine....
A reasonably small 4-8 m (~13-26 foot) asteroid recently flew by Earth, passing close to satellites orbiting in the geostationary ring at a distance of about 42,735 km (~26,554 miles) from Earth’s center and only about 1200 km (~750 miles) from the nearest satellite. ...