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NASA on alert as asteroid heading for 'close approach' to Earth at 16,900mph
NASA is on high alert as asteroid 2025 OL1, travelling at nearly 17,000mph, prepares for a close, but safe, flyby of Earth on ...
NASA alert! Asteroid 2025 OL1 set for close Earth encounter on July 30 at 16,900 mph; scientists track rare near-Earth flyby
Asteroid 2025 OL1, about the size of a small plane, will safely pass Earth on July 30, 2025, at a distance of 1.29 million ...
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NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Flyby Asteroid Dinkinesh At 10,000 MPH
Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Produced, Edited, and Narrated by: David Ladd (AIMM) Animations by: Walt Feimer ...
Asteroid that will spare Earth might hit the moon instead. What happens if it does?
As scientists wait for the asteroid to reappear, its revised trajectory is now drawing attention to another possible target: ...
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Learn About: NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Flyby With Asteroid Donaldjohanson
Learn more about the Lucy mission "fly past 52246 Donaldjohanson -NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA’s Goddard ...
NASA spacecraft snaps a rare photo of Mars and its moons together
Visible on the planet itself is a dark patch near the top, marking the frigid northern polar cap, where temperatures dip to ...
Senegal becomes 56th country to sign Artemis Accords for peaceful space exploration
Senegal has officially joined the Artemis Accords, becoming the 56th nation — and the fourth African country — to commit to a ...
Heliostats could be used to detect asteroids, says researcher
Sandia scientist John Sandusky believes he has found a way to put heliostats, which typically turn solar energy into ...
NASA Alerts About 180-Feet-Wide Asteroid Zooming Past Earth On July 24
An airplane-sized asteroid named 2025 OZ will make its closest approach to Earth on July 24, passing at a distance of 3.34 ...
A giant 180-foot asteroid, 2025 OZ, set for close Earth flyby today, NASA confirms
Even when skies seem calm, space has its surprises. An asteroid the size of an airplane is flying close. While there's no cause for alarm, eyes are firmly fixed above.
Plane-Sized Asteroid To Fly Past Earth Next Week. Here's What NASA Has To Say
The asteroid, which measures around 210 feet long, will fly by on July 28 at a distance of about 393,000 miles ...