An asteroid hit Earth just hours after being detected. It was the …
8 hours ago · This asteroid, designated 2024 UQ, was first discovered on Oct. 22 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey in Hawaii, a network of four telescopes …
Asteroid Approaches Earth Today: What We Know - Newsweek
12 hours ago · The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, is forecast to skim past the Earth at a distance of 92,100 miles Wednesday evening, bringing it much closer to us than the moon's 238,900-mile …
Asteroid will soon enter Earth's orbit as temporary 'mini moon' - NBC News
A school-bus-sized asteroid is expected to spend about two months orbiting Earth as a "mini moon" as it gets temporarily caught by Earth’s gravity.
Next Five Asteroid Approaches - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory …
3 days ago · The dashboard displays the next five Earth approaches to within 4.6 million miles (7.5 million kilometers or 19.5 times the distance to the moon); an object larger than about 150 …
A space rock is about to become Earth’s new ‘mini-moon’ - CNN
Sep 20, 2024 · The newly discovered asteroid, named 2024 PT5, will temporarily be captured by Earth’s gravity and orbit our world from September 29 to November 25, according to …
NASA’s Planetary Radar Tracks Two Large Asteroid Close …
Jul 3, 2024 · The Deep Space Network’s Goldstone planetary radar had a busy few days observing asteroids 2024 MK and 2011 UL21 as they safely passed Earth. Scientists at …
The Asteroid Alert: What These Five Near-Earth Flybys Reveal
Aug 25, 2024 · The five asteroids making close approaches to Earth range in size from a bus to an airplane, but none of them pose a real threat. According to NASA, these asteroids, while …
Watch newly discovered asteroid fly between Earth and moon on …
Jan 28, 2024 · An asteroid discovered earlier this month will reach its closest point to Earth on Saturday (Jan. 27), when it will soar through the sky at a distance closer to us than the moon.
Asteroid Watch - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Asteroid Watch: Keeping an Eye on Near-Earth Objects. Managed for NASA at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) accurately characterizes the …
NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return to Earth: Live updates
On Sept. 24, 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission made U.S. history by returning samples of the asteroid Bennu to Earth after seven years in deep space. Launched in 2016, the OSIRIS-REx …