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May 27, 2022
A huge asteroid more than a mile wide will zoom safely by Earth today and you can watch it live today in a free online webcast.
May 27, 2022
There were no worries whatsoever about the space rock, which passed by at a very safe distance.
May 27, 2022
A mile-wide asteroid passed by Earth on Friday (May 27) at a distance about 10 times that of the space between the Earth and moon.
May 9, 2022
A building-sized asteroid whizzed by our planet overnight into Monday (May 9) and at a very safe distance, just like all the other giant space rocks we know of.
March 13, 2022
You can watch a big asteroid make a safe flyby of Earth today (March 11) from any spot with good internet access.
March 13, 2022
You can watch a big asteroid make a safe flyby of Earth today (March 13) from any spot with good internet access.
January 12, 2022
An asteroid with a diameter of 3,451 feet will fly past our Earth at the speed of thousands of miles an hour. The asteroid is called 7482 or 1994 PC1 since it was discovered in 1994 by Robert McNaught at the Siding Spring Observatory in Australia.
October 25, 2021
The asteroid 2017 SJ20 wont come as close to Earth as it does on October 25 for at least the next 100 years.
February 1, 2021
NASA firs reported 2020 SO as an asteroid in September 2020 In December, it came within 30,000 miles of Earth, allowing closer analysis It was confirmed to be a Centaur booster rocket from 1966s Surveyor 2 mission 2020 SO will make one last pass on February 1 and 2 before heading into space There have been two other reported mini-moons, in 2006 and in February 2020