NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

Asteroids of this size regularly pass through the Earth's neighborhood, often unnoticed, unless they are actively tracked by NASA and other space agencies. The continuous monitoring of near-Earth ...

A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity ...

This will allow the telescopes to "watch" a much wider area of the ... horror as the probability of a "city killer" asteroid called YR4 hitting Earth crept up and up. At the height of the anxiety ...

A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...

Any risk to Earth from this small asteroid has almost been eliminated ... or even be completely ruled out. Watch below: How asteroids go from threat to no sweat Due to the possible damage that ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

You can also watch the landing at the livefeed below. Resilience took a leisurely pace to the Moon, orbiting Earth for 25 days ... a basin formed by an asteroid collision. The descent will ...

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