This asteroid, measuring about 25 feet in size, was first discovered in 2020 and was named RT2. This week, it will be about 2,620,000 miles from Earth. None of the asteroids are expected to pose ...

The near-60-foot big fella, named JA5, was discovered in 2021 and is expected to miss Earth by 3.17 million miles. ... according to NASA’s Asteroid Watch Dashboard.

NASA is expecting its first planetary defense mission test to collide with an asteroid on Sept. 26, 2022. The mission began at Vandenberg Space Force Base in 2021.

NASA is expecting its first planetary defense mission test to collide with an asteroid on Sept. 26, 2022. The mission began at Vandenberg Space Force Base in 2021 ... 2021. (You can watch ...

Its Asteroid Watch dashboard displays the date of the next five closest approaches, as well as each object's approximate diameter and its distance from Earth. ... Launched in November 2021, ...

The two other airplane-sized asteroids are expected to fly past Earth on Sept. 10, according to NASA. Asteroid QF6 is passing within 1.65 million miles of the planet and is 68 feet in size and QE8 ...

The house-sized asteroid, named JA5 and nearly 60 feet in length, will be the first, coming approximately within 3.17 million miles of Earth. It was first observed in 2021.

An asteroid the size of a 747 jet came close in 2021, as did an asteroid 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) wide in 2012. Each of these was discovered only about a day before it passed Earth.

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 in November 2021, with the aim of nudging a space rock into a slightly tighter orbit around its companion ...

The probe will purposefully crash into the moon of the double asteroid Dimorphos. The asteroid poses no actual threat to Earth; it was merely selected for the test. In the 2021 Netflix film “Don ...

NASA is expecting its first planetary defense mission test to collide with an asteroid on Sept. 26, 2022. The mission began at Vandenberg Space Force Base in 2021.