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I/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object ever detected. You can stream the object live today, or maybe see it from your ...
An asteroid called 2024 YR4 has been identified - and it’s heading back toward Earth with a 3.1% chance of impact by December 22, 2032. That might sound small, but it’s 1 in 32 odds - worse than ...
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Asteroid 2020 XR is expected to bypass Earth again in about four years, but it won’t approach this close again until at least 2196, when it will be an estimated 11.3 million miles away.
The asteroid discovered in 2020 is set to make an astronomically close approach early on Wednesday more than 1.37 million miles from our planet, more than five times the average distance to the Moon.
According to Nasa 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Asteroid Watch, an asteroid is considered potentially hazardous when it approaches Earth within 4.6 million miles of our planet and is larger than ...
Asteroid 2020 XR is expected to bypass Earth again in about four years, but it won’t approach this close again until at least 2196, when it will be an estimated 11.3 million miles away.
Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft collected the sample of asteroid Ryugu in 2018 before returning it to Earth in 2020. This year's analysis removed any doubt that many of the building blocks of life ...
You can watch the event live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA, or directly via the agency. Related: NASA's OSIRIS-REx lands samples of asteroid Bennu on Earth after historic 4-billion-mile journey ...
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is on its way to Earth to drop off rocky samples from asteroid Bennu on Sunday, marking NASA’s first attempt to retrieve a piece of a pure space rock. The highly ...