Near Earth Asteroid

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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