Manhattan-sized asteroid since last February. The four scientific teams publishing this week include the NEAR X- ray Gamma-Ray Spectrometer (XGRS) team, the Multispectral Imager and now-silent ...

Mosaic image of asteroid Eros (Getty Images) These hidden asteroids may also change their trajectories relative to Venus, bringing them closer to the Earth. While they do not pose any immediate ...

Ever since Bennu’s discovery in September 1999, astronomers have carefully tracked the asteroid’s orbit with ground-based telescopes, including Puerto Rico’s iconic but now lost Arecibo ...

Its speed and dimensions, however, must be kept under constant surveillance. The asteroid takes 410 days to orbit the Sun, which is approximately the number of near approaches that lie in its future.

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NASA's NEAR Shoemaker mission broke new ground by becoming the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid—433 Eros—before making a controlled crash landing on its surface in 2001. China's ambitious ...

The asteroid’s size and speed—combined with its Earth-crossing orbit—have sparked interest among scientists, space agencies, and skywatchers alike. Though there is no risk of collision ...

A newly discovered asteroid spotted orbiting alarmingly close ... CN41 from its records after a team member realized that the orbit of 2018 CN41 matched artificial object 2018-017A which was ...

2008 DG5 is an Apollo asteroid, meaning it passes through Earth's orbit. It was spotted in 2008 by the Catalina Sky Survey, a component of NASA's Near Earth Object Observation Program, near Tucson ...

The Kamo'oalewa asteroid is a quasi-satellite of Earth a few dozen meters across with very atypical orbital characteristics. It may be piece of the moon put into orbit by some sort of large impact ...

Scientists want to assess the samples to determine the origins of the asteroid, which may be pieces of the moon sent into orbit by a giant impact, and provide insights into the wider evolution of ...

Tianwen 2 is expected to reach Kamo'oalewa in July 2026, following engine burns to fine-tune its orbit. It will spend several months orbiting and studying the asteroid — which scientists think ...