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 ...

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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.

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 ...

It never posed a threat, but it did offer us some cool cosmic footage. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The universe appears to ...

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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A few months ago, an asteroid created quite a buzz. At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, creating plenty of headlines about its potential impact. The threat is all but ...

Asteroid 2003 SD220 safely flew past Earth on Dec. 24 at a distance of 6.8 million miles (11 million kilometers). Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have generated ...

(KTLA) – A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small but significant chance of impacting planet Earth in seven years. The animation, provided by the NASA-funded ...

(CNN) — When NASA scientists recently tracked the orbits of two space rocks as they made close approaches of Earth, they discovered a surprise: One of the asteroids has a little moon. Astronomers ...