An object, officially called 2024 PT5, which was first spotted in August 2023, then observed as a near-Earth ... to be a ...

The probe was headed toward a small asteroid to scan it for valuable ... The spacecraft is designed to travel to the company’s target near-Earth asteroid and dock with the body in space.

Nov. 1, 2023 — The remnants of an ancient planet that collided with Earth to form the Moon ... Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft crashed into Dimorphos, a moonlet of the near-Earth ...

Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth ... away from the Earth," NASA said. However, there is a 1.7% chance that it could impact the moon. In 2013, a small asteroid, just 60 ...

The moon, however, may not be in the clear. When first discovered in December, Asteroid 2024 YR4 had a small but notable ... based observatories. The Near-Earth Object Surveyor will be a space ...

Asteroid 2023 BU will make "one of the closest approaches by a known near-Earth object ... Heading Back to Earth: 'They're on Their Way!' Photos of Sunset on the Moon Aren’t Just Striking ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - New observations of a small ... asteroid's future trajectory. The impact probability has been lowered to 0.001%, according to the European Space Agency's Near-Earth ...

Close call: Earth spared from asteroid impact, but the Moon is at risk NASA warns the asteroid now has a 1.7% chance of hitting our lunar neighbor, a major jump from previous estimates.