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NASA is on high alert as asteroid 2025 OL1, travelling at nearly 17,000mph, prepares for a close, but safe, flyby of Earth on ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

NASA's asteroid-hopping Lucy probe on course for 1st space rock flyby in November : Read more The author repeatedly says that Lucy will stop at various asteroids, which is simply not true. Reply ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apophis asteroid to fly by Earth in April 2029; ... — NASA is considering repurposing a recently shelved mission to study the asteroid Apophis ahead of its Earth flyby later this decade.

Apophis will come to within 20,000 miles of Earth’s surface in 2029, presenting an extraordinary opportunity to study the asteroid from up close.

An artist's illustration of NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft releasing its asteroid sample-return capsule during its Earth flyby on Sept. 24, 2023.