NASA is keeping a close eye on a bus-sized asteroid that is expected to skim past Earth Saturday at a distance only slightly father away than the moon. Officials at the space agency's Jet ...

Latest News. NASA announces that a rare supermoon will pass near Earth: What impact will it have on the planet? World News. NASA works against the clock with risky plan to stop asteroids that ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VK3, is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) to be between 28 and 62 feet in diameter, and will pass Earth ...

An asteroid the size of a school bus is due to ... 2024 VX3 is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) to be between 20 and 43 feet in ...

In 2022, NASA's DART mission crashed an impactor into a double asteroid system in an attempt to change its trajectory (the endeavor was a success). China is also developing its own mission to ...

NASA is on high alert as a massive asteroid, named 99942 Apophis and dubbed the "God of Chaos," approaches Earth, with its closest pass expected on November 13. Measuring around 450 by 170 meters ...

They are also conducting asteroid impact simulations to estimate the damage from different types of collisions and to develop effective methods to respond to a real strike. Nasa plans to launch a ...

The asteroid won't complete a full orbit of Earth ... It's unlikely you'll see the mini-moon. NASA says the absolute magnitude of 2024 PT5 is 27.593. That means it's quite dim and won't be ...

Nov. 13, 2024 — An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth and is one of ...

Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped asteroids, planets and moons grow in our solar system. Analysis of three ...

Nov. 13, 2024 — An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth and is one of ...