Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

On Wednesday, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft zoomed by its first asteroid target — and scientists on the mission were shocked to discover that the rock, named Dinkinesh, was actually two rocks.

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 ...

Three of these asteroids would have over one million times the energy of Hiroshima if they were to strike Earth’s surface and ...

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.

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 ...

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 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.

Rendezvous in space. If all goes as planned, OSIRIS-REx will launch in September 2016 and rendezvous with asteroid 1999 RQ36 in November 2019. It will spend up to 15 months surveying the asteroid's ...

Artist’s impression of Apophis. Nasa. The asteroid belt contains 1-2 million asteroids larger than a kilometre across and millions of smaller bodies.