Asteroid Flyby News Today

A "potentially hazardous" space rock the size of a football stadium is about to reach its closest point to our planet for more than 100 years, and it won't get this close to us again for centuries more.

NASA confirmed that the spacecraft successfully completed the first asteroid flyby of its 12-year mission.

On Wednesday, Nov. 1, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will make its first flyby of an asteroid, zooming past a space rock named Dinkinesh before heading to the Trojan asteroids of Jupiter.

The NASA Lucy mission will closely fly by the first of 10 asteroid targets on Wednesday. The mission will capture detailed images of Dinkinesh’s surface.

An airplane-sized asteroid, Asteroid 2015 MA54, flies by Earth today at an incredible speed of 27,000 km/h, Technology & Science News, Times Now

These cosmic vagabonds, all belonging to the Amor group of near-Earth objects, gave us a celestial spectacle without posing any hazard to our humble abode., Technology & Science News, Times Now

Weekend Space Visitors: Asteroids 2023 JG and 2023 JP Zoom Past Earth!, Technology & Science News, Times Now

There is a high chance Asteroid 2006 HV5 will not hit Earth next week. Click to read more. An Eiffel Tower-sized asteroid called 2006 HV5 will fly by Earth next week.

Saturdays close encounter will offer astronomers the chance to study a space rock from just over 100,000 miles away.

NASA has predicted the blue-whale-size asteroid will safely pass Earth by a significant distance of over 2.2 million miles (3.5 million kilometers).