Near Earth Asteroid

Earth to have close encounter with small asteroid this week: NASA Systems

The asteroid was initially spotted by amateur astronomer Gennadiy Borisov on Saturday and reported to the Minor Planet Center (MPC)

Updated On: 27 Jan 2023 | 7:47 PM IST

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NASA's James Webb, Hubble capture DART impact after asteroid strike

For the first time, Webb and Hubble have simultaneously captured imagery from the same target in the cosmos

Updated On: 29 Sep 2022 | 11:07 PM IST

Japan's Hayabusa-2 capsule returns to Earth with pristine asteroid samples

About two hours after the capsule''s reentry, JAXA said its helicopter search team found the capsule in the planned landing area

Updated On: 06 Dec 2020 | 7:03 AM IST

Asteroid over 22 metres in diameter to pass by Earth on Sept 1: Nasa

Nasa estimates the asteroid's relative speed at around 8.16 kilometres per second

Updated On: 30 Aug 2020 | 1:14 PM IST

An SUV-sized asteroid just made the closest fly-by of Earth on record

At roughly 10 to 20 feet (3 to 6 meters) across, asteroid 2020 QG is very small by asteroid standards

Updated On: 19 Aug 2020 | 11:55 AM IST

NASA spacecraft completes final practice before asteroid sample collection

Nightingale, OSIRIS-REx's primary sample collection site, is located within a crater in Bennu's northern hemisphere

Updated On: 13 Aug 2020 | 12:35 PM IST

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Stadium-sized asteroid, 2 others to whiz past Earth in June: Know details

NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) web-site at the Centre for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) reveals that they will be fast approaching the Earth this month

Updated On: 04 Jun 2020 | 5:48 PM IST

Intermediate-sized near-Earth asteroid to fly past safely on Feb 4: Nasa

2002 AJ129 is an intermediate-sized near-Earth asteroid, somewhere between 0.5 and 1.2 kilometres across

Updated On: 23 Jan 2018 | 9:04 PM IST