An asteroid that hit Earth’s atmosphere earlier this year was spinning once every 2.6 seconds, faster than any we knew of. Called 2024 BX1, the object – probably no more than 1 metre wide ...

It was also estimated to be 40 to 100 meters across and it spins very fast for an asteroid. Then, in 2021, another team found evidence suggesting that the makeup of Kamo'oalewa was similar to that ...

ESA's Hera asteroid mission for planetary defense will ... launched in July 2020 and entered orbit around Mars in February 2021. Co-observations with ESA's own Mars Express and ExoMars Trace ...

It's 68 feet wide (aeroplane size) and belongs to the Apollo group. 4. Asteroid 2021 GQ5: It will fly past Earth at a distance of 33,70,000 km. It's 22 feet wide (bus size) and belongs to the Aten ...

Vesta emerged in the first 1 to 2 million years after the solar system formed and is now the second largest body in the asteroid belt ... was found in Algeria in 2021 and sold to a Chinese ...

A day after two 100-foot asteroids came very close to Earth, another asteroid is set to do the same today and NASA is tracking the space rock as it approaches our planet. Asteroids are space rocks ...

Nature Astronomy study links asteroid 469219 Kamo'oalewa to potential lunar fragment, supported by similarities to lunar rock. Tianwen-2 mission could confirm its lunar origin, aiding in ...

It gets so close that the line on NASA's trajectory map for the asteroid actually passes through Earth as it crosses the planet's orbit. Don't worry, this is a harmless space rock. An asteroid ...

And now, US space agency NASA says that one asteroid that is as big as 280 feet is all set to get very close to Earth tomorrow, April 21. This makes it as big as a building. Just imagine what will ...

A "city-killer" asteroid has just made its closest approach to Earth since records began, sailing safely past our planet at more than eight times the average distance between Earth and the moon.