JF flew about 199,000 miles (320,000 km) away from Earth. It's estimated size is about 34 feet wide (10 meters), roughly the ...

The Earth has a “second moon,” and it appears to have originated from the original moon. This additional moon is a near-Earth ...

A colossal asteroid slammed into Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede with so much power it dramatically and permanently reoriented the moon roughly 4 billion years ago, new research suggests. Scientists ...

Naturally, the bigger an asteroid is, the more damage it does. But there are many more small asteroids than large ones, and ...

A 60-mile wide asteroid impact on Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, drastically reshaped its surface and altered its ...

During this time, it will pass at a distance of about 620,000 miles, which is approximately 2.6 times the distance between Earth and the Moon. The asteroid’s size and speed are particularly ...

Apophis is projected to pass within 20,000 miles ... predicted to come within a distance of Earth 10 times closer than the moon, according to NASA. The asteroid also won't hit our planet when ...

Kobe University HIRATA Naoyuki was the first to realize that the location of an asteroid impact on Jupiter’s moon Ganymede ..

The Virtual Telescope Project captured images of asteroid 2024 ON, set to pass Earth on September 17, 2024, at a safe ...

The asteroid that struck our planet measured no more than 10 miles across, or 0.112% of the size of the 7,917-mile diameter Earth ... arrives at the moon and goes into orbit around it.

Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid hit the ... 1,700 km—a quarter the Earth's radius—beneath the surface of the Earth. The Moon makes a complete orbit around the Earth every 27.3 ...

Here's what to know about Apophis and how space agencies hope to protect Earth from other asteroids like it. Apophis is projected to pass within ... near-Earth asteroid because its orbit bring ...