The first incident occurred on Oct. 1, when a small asteroid designated 2025 TF slipped past Earth at an altitude of just 266 ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is planning the Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety (RAMSES) mission to the Apophis ...

An asteroid about the size of a small building zoomed past Earth unnoticed by astronomers last week, coming as close to the ...

No one spotted the asteroid as it approached. Astronomers caught it only a few hours after it had already passed, when data ...

Learn how astronomers spotted 2025 TF, an asteroid that passed just 266 miles over Antarctica in early October 2025.

A small asteroid flew 266 miles over Antarctica. It was too small to pose a threat, but objects of that size can produce ...

A massive asteroid nearly the size of a New York skyscraper will make a close approach, or pass, by Earth in the early hours of Sept. 18, according to scientists. They say the asteroid, officially ...

Stargazers can tune in to the Virtual Telescope Project's YouTube stream beginning at 11 p.m. EDT on Sept. 17 (3:00 GMT Sept.

Apophis will zoom safely past the Earth closer than the orbits of geosynchronous satellites on April 13, 2029. As well as the ...

An asteroid recently made the second closest pass to Earth ever observed on October 1st. And astronomers only found it after ...

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