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An asteroid called 2020 CD3 was bound to Earth for several years before leaving the planet’s orbit in 2020 and another called 2022 NX1 became a mini-moon of Earth in 1981 and 2022 and will return ...

For months, astronomers were concerned that a newly discovered asteroid ... Earth in 2032. But thanks to new data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), we now know Earth is in the clear. The ...

Asteroid 2023 KU, comparable to a 35-story building, will safely pass Earth on April 11, 2025, at a distance twice that of the Moon. While posing no immediate threat, its flyby underscores the ...

NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes ... 4.6 million miles of the Earth—a range that is roughly 19.5 times the distance to the Moon. The agency uses sophisticated ...

According to NASA's Sentry tool, which monitors asteroids that may impact Earth, the threat now sits at 0.00078%. The moon may not be so lucky. Per NASA, the odds of the asteroid impacting the ...

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This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data ...