A massive asteroid, 2022 CE2, is set to make a close flyby of Earth on Thursday. The 370-foot asteroid will travel at an ...

The asteroid, named 2022 CE2, is estimated by NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be about 370 feet across, with JPL's ...

In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

Through the International Asteroid Discovery Project, Daksh Malik successfully discovered asteroid 2023 OG40 in the main ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory monitors asteroid 2022 CE2, expected to safely pass Earth on January 16, 2025. The ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is keeping a close eye on an asteroid set to approach Earth on January 16, 2025. The ...

ESA's Hera spacecraft as it would look in space. Dimorphos is a small moonlet that orbits the bigger asteroid Didymos. In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into Dimorphos to see if it could change ...

However, on NASA’s launch schedule is the Psyche mission to uncover a metal-rich asteroid of the same name. Originally scheduled to launch in September 2022, Psyche was scrubbed last year after ...

Lee esta historia en español aquí. The near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago ...

according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Center for Near-Earth Object Studies. The moon orbits the Earth at an average distance of 238,900 miles. Stock image of an asteroid passing the Earth ...

This option would involve detonating a device near the asteroid to either deflect or fragment it, reducing the risk of a direct impact on Earth. In 2022, NASA successfully demonstrated the ...