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Asteroid 2025 OL1, about the size of a small plane, will safely pass Earth on July 30, 2025, at a distance of 1.29 million ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2025 OL1 will pass Earth on 30 July. The rock is roughly 110 feet wide—close to the size of ...

The flyby of Dinkinesh is in addition to another main-belt asteroid, 52246 Donaldjohanson, that it will fly by in 2025. Lucy will then fly by several Trojan asteroids at Jupiter’s distance from ...

An asteroid named 2025 ME92 is set to fly past Earth on July 31. It will maintain a safe distance of 3.19 million kilometers. NASA and ISRO are monito ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captured this image of asteroid Dinkinesh as it flew by at 10,000 mph. First images returned by Lucy reveal the asteroid is actually a binary pair! Learn more: https://t ...

The little asteroid visited by NASA's Lucy spacecraft this week had a big surprise for scientists — a mini moon. The spacecraft made the discovery during Wednesday's close flyby of the asteroid ...

The flyby will be used to test out the spacecraft’s system for locating an asteroid and locking its instruments onto its location as it flies past. This is important as when Lucy eventually ...

NASA's asteroid-hopping Lucy spacecraft has adjusted course on its way to explore distant space rocks. Lucy's current trajectory will see the probe visit the tiny asteroid Dinkinesh in November 2023.

NASA emblem. (AP Photo/Chris O’Meara) (NewsNation) — NASA is considering repurposing a recently shelved mission to study the asteroid Apophis ahead of its Earth flyby later this decade.

A large asteroid zipped past Earth last week, in a relatively rare event that astronomers described as one "very close encounter" with our planet. The space rock, called 2023 DZ2 by NASA, reached ...

Radar observations of asteroid Apophis on March 8, 9, and 10, 2021 during its last close approach to Earth before its 2029 flyby. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech and NSF/AUI/GBO ...