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.
A half-pound of asteroid rock and dust will land by parachute in Utah – and will be exhaustively analyzed in Houston ...
NASA's first effort to retrieve samples from an asteroid will send a capsule that contains extraterrestrial pebbles and dust ...
After the DART spacecraft made contact with Dimorphos last year, the space rock's orbit is declining more than expected, ...
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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 ...
After scooping material from an asteroid, NASA's OSIRIS-REx is preparing to drop the sample off in Utah before continuing on ...
(Gray News) - NASA says an asteroid called Bennu has a chance of impacting Earth late in the 22nd century. According to scientists, Bennu will make a close flyby of Earth in 2135 with a chance of ...
Shaped like a 144-mile-long potato, the peculiar asteroid Psyche is the largest metallic object in our solar system. And after NASA's Psyche exploratory spacecraft travels 2.2 billion miles to reach ...
Tucked inside a protective heat shield, the asteroid sample should touch down Sunday at the military-controlled Utah Test and ...
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 ...
