The asteroid 2022 RM4, photographed by astronomer Gianluca Masi at the Virtual Telescope Project in Italy on October 31, 2022. The asteroid passed Earth the following day at a distance of around 1 ...

Asteroid 2022 KY4 will, thankfully, miss our planet by a few million miles. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Remember when NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in 2022? Today, a different probe was successfully launched to get a close-up look at the aftermath of the collision. About ...

2022 GU6 is classified as an Apollo asteroid, with a diameter approximately between 60m and 150m. (On the larger side, that’s about as tall as the Fuller Building, a 40-story skyscraper in New ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) launched its Hera mission on Monday at 10:52 a.m. ET on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which had been grounded following an upper stage deorbit burn anomaly in ...

The $330 million proof-of-concept mission, which was seven years in development, also represented the world's first test of a planetary defense system designed to prevent a potential doomsday ...

The asteroid, known as 2022 RM4, is expected to pass by Earth on Nov. 1 – about 1.5 million miles away at its closest point. According to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies, ...

The asteroid 2022 AP7 is no exception. “Over time, this asteroid will get brighter and brighter in the sky as it starts crossing Earth’s orbit closer and closer to where the Earth actually is ...

Asteroid 2022 RM4 will come within 1.43 million miles of the Earth. Witches and ghosts won’t be the only things whizzing through the sky on Halloween night.

One of the asteroids, called 2022 AP7, is 1.5 kilometers (0.9 miles) wide and has an orbit that could bring it within Earth’s path in the future, but it’s difficult for the scientists to know ...

In September 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test successfully demonstrated how a fast-moving spacecraft could change an asteroid’s trajectory by crashing into it, ...

But the object formerly known as asteroid 2022 UQ1 has now been properly identified as a booster that helped launch NASA's Lucy spacecraft on Oct. 16, 2021. So not a space rock, ...