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About halfway through its two-year trek to the asteroid Bennu, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft took some stunning images of Earth and the moon as it whizzed past its home planet last fall.
A view of Earth and the moon taken using the Hera spacecraft’s Asteroid Framing Camera (AFC) on Oct. 11 from a distance of nearly 1 million miles, or approximately 1.6 million kilometers. (Image ...
China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main ...
The mission aims to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 and explore the main-belt comet 311P.
Earth has a cool new snapshot itself — taken by a photographer from 70 million miles away. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft took the pic days before going into orbit around asteroid Bennu on New ...
The first space rock, asteroid 2011 UL21, passed by Earth on June 27 at a distance of 4.1 million miles (6.6 million kilometers), or 17 times the distance between Earth and the moon.
Asteroid 2023 RR5 is due to pass halfway between the Earth and the moon on September 13, 2023. Stock image of an asteroid passing between the Earth and the moon.
In the meantime, catch Asteroid vs Earth, streaming now on Peacock. Graphic of the possible locations of moon impact – represented by yellow points – of asteroid 2024 YR4 on Dec. 22, 2032, as ...
An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth, but the James Webb Space Telescope went to get a look at it anyway. Here's what it found.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which is currently on its way to the asteroid Bennu, captured this color composite image of Earth and the moon on Oct. 2, 2017. (Image credit: NASA/OSIRIS-REx team ...