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An Asteroid Will Fly By Earth in 4 Years. Scientists Are Racing to Uncover Its Secrets.
As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...
NASA Tracking Bus-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth
2025 HU isn't the only asteroid approaching the Earth today. NASA is also tracking an airplane-sized space rock known as 2025 GD1, which is estimated to be about 86 feet across and will zip past the ...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images
NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...
NASA Tracking Building-Sized Asteroid Nearing Earth
NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five ...
New observations show the asteroid that won’t hit Earth resembles a spinning hockey puck
The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck ...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is speeding toward another close encounter with an asteroid
Lucy’s next stop — “the main event,” as Levison calls it — will be the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...
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The race to visit the asteroid making the closest pass by Earth
Space agencies from the US, Europe and Japan are all making plans to visit the asteroid Apophis when it makes an extremely ...
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'City-killer' asteroid that might hit moon has 'unexpected' shape, astronomers say
The once-dubbed "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 has surprised scientists with its 'unusual' shape as it rapidly rotates ...
Why meteorites that hit Earth have less water than the asteroid bits brought back by space probes — a planetary scientist explains
A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are ...
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‘God Of Chaos’ Asteroid: It’s Exactly Four Years Until The Rarest Space Event Of Our Lives
Precisely four years from today — on Friday, April 13, 2029 — an asteroid as wide as the Empire State Building is wide will come closer to Earth than orbiting geosynchronous satellites in a ...
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Meet the researchers testing the “Armageddon” approach to asteroid defense
A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that ...
NASA’s Lucy shares striking close-up of Donaldjohanson asteroid
NASA has shared the first closeup images of the Donaldjohanson asteroid, captured by its Lucy spacecraft on a recent flyby around 139 million miles (223 million km) from Earth.