As two asteroids make their closest approach to Earth on Sept 2, space watchers will be hooked to the sky to witness the spectacle
A near-earth asteroid 2024 PQ5 is heading to earth at a speed of 28,128 miles per hour. Nasa issues alerts as the space agency closely monitors such activities to ensure no potential threats
Asteroid 2024 OR1 is part of the Apollo asteroids, which have been making their closest approach to Earth recently
Asteroid 2016 LK49 will come within a distance of 364,150 kilometers of Earth traveling at a speed of 19.4 kilometers per second
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Centre for Near-Earth Objects (NEO) maintains a list of objects that may come close to Earth to understand the potential risk they pose
NASA issued the alert warning as an Asteroid is about to pass close to the Earth today, a bus size asteroid is passing at a speed of 48052 Km/h
An asteroid is classified as a Near-Earth Object (NEO) if its distance from our planet is less than 1.3 times the distance between Earth and the Sun
The asteroid was initially spotted by amateur astronomer Gennadiy Borisov on Saturday and reported to the Minor Planet Center (MPC)
For the first time, Webb and Hubble have simultaneously captured imagery from the same target in the cosmos
About two hours after the capsule''s reentry, JAXA said its helicopter search team found the capsule in the planned landing area
Nasa estimates the asteroid's relative speed at around 8.16 kilometres per second
At roughly 10 to 20 feet (3 to 6 meters) across, asteroid 2020 QG is very small by asteroid standards
Nightingale, OSIRIS-REx's primary sample collection site, is located within a crater in Bennu's northern hemisphere
NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) web-site at the Centre for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) reveals that they will be fast approaching the Earth this month
2002 AJ129 is an intermediate-sized near-Earth asteroid, somewhere between 0.5 and 1.2 kilometres across