NASA is monitoring three asteroids soaring past the Earth at about 8,000 to 15,000 miles per hour, the biggest of which ...

NASA is tracking two bus-sized asteroids in the vicinity of the Earth that are whizzing through space at some 11,000 to 24,000 miles per hour. A space rock known as "2025 HP22," measuring ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft had its second rendezvous with an asteroid over the weekend, this time with the uniquely named Donaldjohanson space rock. On April 20, the probe’s Lucy Long-Range ...

While about 20,000 previously unknown asteroids are discovered every year by telescopes around the world and spacecraft in orbit, the first images by the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory revealed 2,000 ...

NASA and ESA scientists are monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4, which is now projected to have a small chance of impacting the Moon ...

The observations allowed NASA and the ESA to conclude that asteroid 2024 YR4 measures anywhere from 174-220 feet, or about the size of a 10-story building, the U.S. space agency said in a blog post.

But fortunately, it's rendezvous Earth with was projected to be at a safe 1.37 million miles away, according to NASA. ... including so-called near-Earth asteroids, according to NASA.

NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids, like the recently spotted 2024 YR4. Up until August 2024, the WISE spacecraft was one such observatory.

An illustration of the Psyche spacecraft and its asteroid. NASA The Psyche spacecraft launched nearly two years ago and is currently on its way to rendezvous with a unique asteroid in an effort to ...

Europe makes moves to rendezvous with asteroid Apophis in 2029. Andrew Jones. ... size and larger, and to deflect asteroids up to 500-meter [1,650 feet] ... NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, ...

Nasa did this in 2022, when a spacecraft called Dart collided with an asteroid. Before we do this out of necessity, we have to understand how different types of asteroids would react to such an ...

NASA Devised a Wild Plot to Capture an Asteroid and Save Humanity. It Almost Failed The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground.