An asteroid the width of Manhattan will be close enough to Earth tonight to be seen with binoculars. The good news is that the word "close" — like all things astronomical — is relative.

What time is the first full moon of 2025? Here's when the Wolf Moon will peak This Sunday, January 12, the asteroid (887) Alinda, which measures about 4.2 kilometers in diameter, can be seen from ...

With an estimated diameter of 4.2 km, the asteroid's January appearance sees it coming within a relatively cosmically close distance of 12.28 million km to us. Its size makes it larger than 99% of ...

The massive asteroid (887) "Alinda" has made its closest approach to Earth in decades and is set to reach peak brightness in a rare and once-in-a-decade event. The event can be observed this ...

The lander is part of the larger mission to the asteroid belt The lander, designed to study the asteroid Justitia, will be part of the larger EMA initiative, which spans a 13-year mission to ...

A massive asteroid, spanning more than two miles across, has just made its closest approach to Earth in decades - but its spectacle isn’t over yet. The asteroid, named (887) Alinda, will reach ...

(Picture: Eyes on Asteroids/NASA / SWNS) Today, an asteroid larger than Manhattan – large enough it could end civilization, or at least wreck a country – is casually flying by Earth.

Named 2060 Chiron, this 125-mile-wide (200km) asteroid-comet hybrid is a type of body known as a Centaur, named after the mythical creature that is half-horse and half-man. Centaurs are solar ...

THIS year looks set to be another blockbuster year for daring space missions, from China's asteroid retrieval to the first-ever private space station. Here are some of the biggest space missions ...

Astronomers are closely monitoring asteroid 2024 XN1. Scientists are closely monitoring asteroid 2024 XN1, scheduled to pass Earth on December 24. The asteroid measures approximately 120 feet and ...

This massive space rock has a potential destructive force of 12 million tonnes of TNT. Huge space rock 2024 XN1, which is also dubbed as the 'Christmas Eve asteroid' and is the size of an ...

NASA has warned that a giant asteroid the size of a 10-story building will be whizzing right past us tonight. dimazel - stock.adobe.com Are we about to get Jingle Bell rock-ed? Santa Claus isn’t ...