The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory actively tracks these Near Earth Objects. Although NASA has assured that these flyby asteroids don't pose any threat to Earth, they will be close enough for ...

A near-Earth ... to NASA to catalog at least 90% of NEOs that are at least 1 kilometre (3,300 ft) in diameter, sufficient to cause a global catastrophe, was met by 2011. In later years, the survey ...

The successor mission, NASA's NEO Surveyor (Near Earth Object Surveyor), will be the first space telescope that will be ...

NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor space telescope is currently under construction at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in ...

Nov. 1, 2022 — On September 26, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft crashed into Dimorphos, a moonlet of the near-Earth ... between the Earth and an object about the ...

However, NASA has confirmed the asteroids will not come close enough to our planet and 'therefore pose no risk of impact.' These asteroids are categorized as Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) because they ...

NASA has reported that two airplane-size asteroids, named 2024 UT7 and 2024 UX6, will be making close approaches to Earth on November 5, 2024. These two near-Earth objects, with dimensions ...

"I was suspicious immediately," Paul Chodas, director of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), told the New York Times. Like Chodas, many scientists had suspected that this object ...

NASA tracks close approaches and calculates the odds of those space rocks — including asteroids, meteors and meteorites — impacting Earth. "The majority of near-Earth objects have orbits that don't ...

Nevertheless, this is a very close pass by such a big object ... Earth’s gravitational field. In 2016, Nasa launched the ...

Meet NASA’s NEO Surveyor, the space telescope identifying hazardous asteroids and comets within 48 million kilometres of Earth’s orbit ...