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The "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2025 FA22 will fly close past Earth at more than 24,000 mph on Thursday (Sept. 18). The ...
A n asteroid the size of a skyscraper is approaching Earth at a sprightly 24,136 miles per hour—and will be at its closest to ...
Asteroid 2025 FA22, measuring up to 951 feet across, will make a close approach to Earth early Thursday according to NASA ...
Stargazers can tune in to the Virtual Telescope Project's YouTube stream beginning at 11 p.m. EDT on Sept. 17 (3:00 GMT Sept.
Astronomers have used observatories around the world, including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO ...
The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, expects its spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid in July 2031. The ...
A skyscraper-size asteroid named 2025 FA22 will make a close approach to Earth this week, and you can watch it happen live ...
The Hayabusa2 mission is facing a new challenge after observations showed the asteroid it is going to rendezvous with and ...
An artist's impression of Japan’s Hayabusa2 space mission touching down on the surface of the asteroid 1998 KY26. New observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have r ...
The asteroid will pass the Earth at a distance of about 135,000 miles (about 217,000 km), considered "close" in astronomical ...
New research warns that if we don't hit an asteroid in exactly the right spot, it could end up on a collision course with ...
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