The airplane-sized asteroid passed by last week on a track that placed it between the Earth and moon's orbits, which is ...
The impact crater would be long gone, but scientists found bits of ejecta from the event some 3.48 billion years ago.
An asteroid that NASA discovered in February will pass between the Earth and the moon on Saturday and will be visible from Waco, a Baylor scientist said.
A working group of the International Astronomical Union has named an asteroid after him, the Vatican Observatory said Tuesday. The “560974 Ugoboncompagni” — Gregory’s birth name was Ugo ...
The asteroid is noticeable enough to land on NASA's Earth impact monitoring list and the ESA's risk list. NASA says an asteroid like 2023 DW, which is larger than 82 feet but smaller than ...
He said it was normal for the impact odds of newly discovered asteroids to briefly rise before rapidly falling. This is because new observations shrink the "uncertainty region" where the asteroid ...
While the chances of an impact are low, additional observations could refine the orbit and change the odds one way or the ...
Although NASA said there is a “very small chance” of impact, orbit analysts will continue to watch the asteroid named 2023 DW. “Often when new objects are first discovered, it takes several ...
