RR5 is due to skim past at a distance of 130,000 miles away from Earth, nearly twice as close as the Moon at 240,000 miles.
NASA's Osiris-REx mission sends a pristine sample of asteroid back to Earth Sunday morning. If it lands successfully, this ...
Tucked inside a protective heat shield, the asteroid sample should touch down Sunday at the military-controlled Utah Test and ...
After the DART spacecraft made contact with Dimorphos last year, the space rock's orbit is declining more than expected, ...
A NASA spacecraft zooming toward Earth is on track to fling a capsule the size of an automobile tire onto a Utah bombing ...
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This orbital diagram from CNEOS’s close approach viewer shows 2023 BU’s trajectory – in red – during its close approach with ...
If you love knowing what's "out there," NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory maintains an asteroid watch dashboard that tracks asteroids and comets that will make relatively close approaches to Earth.
A NASA spacecraft will fly by Earth on Sunday and drop off what is expected to be at least a cupful of rubble it grabbed from ...
Sep. 18, 2023 — A team recently calculated that most of the Moon's permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) are at most around 3.4 billion years old and can contain relatively young deposits of water ...
What is the moon phase today? Today, Sept. 23, 2023, the moon is 8 days old and is in the Waxing Gibbous phase of its lunar cycle. It is 59% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in ...
