One rock, as big as a football field, careening through space on an elliptical orbit that lasts four years, suddenly found itself one of the most observed bodies in our solar system, according to NASA ...

Florence has company! Radar observations of this near-Earth asteroid currently cruising across our evening sky discovered not one but two tiny moons orbiting the 2.8-mile-wide (4.5 km) object.

One of the NEAs, 99942 Apophis, which was discovered in 2004, is arriving on (of all the freaking dates) Friday the 13th in ...

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Asteroid Apophis will make a historic close approach to Earth on April 13, 2029, passing within 32,000 kilometers. While ...

The potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 ON looks like an adorable space peanut or a chunky snowman tumbling its way through the solar system in new close-up images of the ancient space rock. The Deep ...

The following article is courtesy of NASA: 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 ...

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The highest-resolution radar images of asteroid 2015 TB145’s safe flyby of Earth have been processed. NASA scientists used giant, Earth-based radio telescopes to bounce radar signals off the asteroid ...

On Aug. 14, 2021, a small near-Earth asteroid (NEA) designated 2021 PJ1 passed our planet at a distance of over 1 million miles (about 1.7 million kilometers). Between 65 and 100 feet (20 and 30 ...

Starting today through Nov. 25, Earth will have a temporary companion — a mini-moon. Technically, it’s not a real moon but rather a 37-foot asteroid called “2024 PT5” believed to be from the Arjuna ...