A "potentially hazardous" pyramid-size asteroid is about to zoom past Earth at around ... Related: NASA's most wanted: The 5 most dangerous asteroids to Earth During the upcoming flyby, the asteroid ...

Lucy’s next stop — “the main event,” as Levison calls it — will be the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

In four years, on 13 April 2029 to be exact, a large asteroid named Apophis will fly ... for the day it would make its exceptionally close flyby. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox!

The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet at a zippy 28,655 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

NASA is monitoring an asteroid approximately the size of an airplane as it prepares ... distance between the Earth and the moon. This flyby is part of a series of five near-Earth approaches ...

A 'potentially hazardous' asteroid the size of a pyramid will skim past Earth tomorrow, NASA has revealed. The asteroid, called 2014 TN17, is expected to come as close as 0.03404 astronomical ...

To read the paper “A pre-flyby view on the origin of asteroid Donaldjohanson, a target of the NASA Lucy mission,” published in the Planetary Science Journal, see: DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/adb4f4.

The mission’s flyby was used as a gravity assist to its final destination at the binary asteroid system Dimorphos ... s temperature as well as particle size, porosity, and roughness.

A "potentially hazardous" pyramid-size asteroid is about to zoom past Earth at around 48,000 mph (77,300 km/h) this week as it reaches its closest point to our planet in more than 100 years.