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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 ...
NASA is closely tracking a large, 110-foot asteroid named 2025 OL1, which is currently heading towards Earth at a speed of nearly 17,000 miles per hour.
NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2025 OL1 will pass Earth on 30 July. The rock is roughly 110 feet wide—close to the size of ...
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 2022 YS5, a building-sized space rock, will safely pass Earth on July 17, prompting NASA and ISRO to emphasize the ...
NASA Finds a Surprise Second Asteroid During a Flyby Mission While testing its tracking system, the agency’s Lucy spacecraft discovered that Dinkinesh is not one space rock, but two ...
NASA's asteroid-hopping Lucy spacecraft has adjusted course on its way to explore distant space rocks. Lucy's current trajectory will see the probe visit the tiny asteroid Dinkinesh in November 2023.
NASA emblem. (AP Photo/Chris O’Meara) (NewsNation) — NASA is considering repurposing a recently shelved mission to study the asteroid Apophis ahead of its Earth flyby later this decade.
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 ...
Radar observations of asteroid Apophis on March 8, 9, and 10, 2021 during its last close approach to Earth before its 2029 flyby. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech and NSF/AUI/GBO ...