While asteroids are more easily discovered with optical telescopes, radar images shine when it comes to details.

The asteroid, with a diameter of about 950 feet will come close enough to Earth on Friday to warrant astronomers keeping a ...

The JPL lab tracks any asteroids or ... according to NASA. The NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-APEX hovers over the surface of the near-Earth asteroid Apophis, using its thrusters to disturb the ...

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid making its way toward Earth today, May 2, 2025, with an alarming speed of 42,300 ...

Here's everything to know about the asteroid, how the public can track it going by and why NASA keeps a close eye on inbound space rocks. The asteroid, dubbed 2002 JX8, makes close approaches to ...

Here's everything to know about today's asteroid, how the public can track it going by and why NASA keeps a close eye on inbound space rocks. The asteroid, dubbed 2002 JX8, makes close approaches ...

NASA has been tracking a house-sized asteroid in the vicinity of Earth that is hurtling through space at a zippy 42,300 miles per hour. Known as "2025 HM4," the asteroid's path brought it within a ...

2025 HU isn't the only asteroid approaching the Earth today. NASA is also tracking an airplane-sized space rock known as 2025 GD1, which is estimated to be about 86 feet across and will zip past ...

NASA debuted an ... of the global effort to track and possibly deflect dangerous space rocks. Lejoly says she’s not some superhero in a cape pushing an asteroid away, but her work can make ...

A NASA spacecraft will make a close approach ... over a few hours to get the full picture. It will stop tracking just before the asteroid is nearest, when it’ll have to shield its instruments ...