Other major asteroids NASA is watching are 2023 TL4, 2007 FT3 and 1979 XB. NASA is trying to figure out a way to ensure we don’t get wiped out. NASA launched the Double Asteroid Redirection Test ...

Current calculations estimate that asteroid 2023 TL4 has a 0.00055 per cent – or one in 181,000 – chance of striking Earth on October 10 2119, triggering an explosion equivalent to 7.5 billion ...

Take asteroid 2023 BU for example. This asteroid was just discovered last weekend by amateur astronomer Gennadiy Borisov, who watches the skies from Nauchnyi in Crimea. This newly discovered space ...

Discovered in 2023, asteroid 2023 TL4 quickly became one of the most hazardous near-Earth objects. It has a 0.00055% (1 in 181,000) chance of hitting Earth on October 10, 2119, with an energy ...

Having launched on Oct. 16, 2021, Lucy encountered the asteroid Dinkinesh and its moon, Selam, in November of 2023. Like Donaldjohanson, Dinkinesh and Selam are also inhabitants of the asteroid ...