Notorious Asteroid Has A Friday The 13th Close Encounter With Earth

A famously unlucky date is getting a cosmic twist.NASA says the asteroid Apophis will safely pass close to Earth on Friday, ...

A ‘Potentially Hazardous’ Asteroid Will Pass Close to Earth in 2029 — and It Has an Alarming Nickname

This occurrence will be the closest approach to Earth by an asteroid of this size that scientists have known about in advance ...

Eiffel Tower-sized asteroid Apophis to pass closer to Earth than many satellites in 2029, NASA says

A potentially hazardous asteroid named Apophis will fly unusually close to Earth on April 13, 2029, but NASA says there is no ...

Asteroid the size of 60 sloths to fly past the Earth tomorrow

Sloths are the slowest mammals of all, but asteroid 2026 HX3 is anything but that – both in terms of being slow and in terms ...
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NASA has discovered a concealed asteroid approaching Earth

NASA has revealed the existence of a previously unnoticed asteroid, named 2026 JK4, which will come closer to Earth than the ...

NASA testing next-gen space telescope that could help astronomers detect city-killing asteroids

The Near-Earth Object Surveyor, or NEO Surveyor, is the U.S. space agency’s first infrared space telescope specifically ...

"God of chaos" asteroid will pass close to Earth in 3 years, NASA says

People on the ground in the Eastern Hemisphere will be able to observe the asteroid with their own eyes, weather permitting, according to NASA.
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NASA asteroid: Agency tracking newly discovered space rock that has 'small chance' of hitting Earth

CHICAGO -- A newly discovered asteroid roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool has a "small chance" of colliding with Earth in 23 years, with a potential impact on Valentine's Day in 2046, ...