An asteroid is due to pass the Earth on Wednesday, flying by at a distance a little more than that of the moon's orbit ... that didn't happen' that orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter in ...

Three of the asteroids are due to fly by our home planet at distances of around 4 million miles, while one will approach ...

A graph showing near-Earth asteroid discoveries. Discoveries have ramped up since the early 2000s. Credit: NASA / Center for ...

Astronomers recently identified asteroid 2023 FW13 as a quasi-moon, a space rock orbiting the sun nearly in tandem with Earth.

JK, despite the name, is no joke – but it also won't hit us. But its passing of Earth does come on a day when some Christians ...

NASA said an asteroid the size of an airliner will pass close ... to enter the Earth’s neighborhood.” 2023 JD2 is somewhat similar to 2023 DZ2, an asteroid estimated to be between 140 feet ...

Fortunately, larger asteroid impacts are rare, with the estimated time between ... orbit becomes necessarily uncertain over time, we know that the asteroid cannot reach the Earth." Based on the ...

2023 FW13 is a quasi-moon - a subcategory of near-Earth asteroids that orbit the sun ... lunar rocks from NASA's Apollo missions. Explained: The difference between an asteroid, meteorite and ...

But the moon's orbit and phases can seem mysterious ... is believed to have formed as a result of a collision between Earth and a smaller Mars-sized planet, based on analysis of lunar samples ...

By concentrating on when these giant space rocks get a bit too close to us, researchers were able to rule out any impacts for ...

It also provides a potential launch window between 2020 and 2050, farther than most comparable databases. Some additional features include the ability to calculate a parking orbit and set delta-v ...