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China’s Tianwen-2 probe is sliding into orbit around a tiny near-Earth asteroid to grab a sample next month
China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft is on track to reach asteroid (469219) Kamoʻoalewa for close-approach observations and sample ...
Astronomers don’t treat every “close approach” headline the same way the public does. On June 9, two near-Earth objects, 2026 ...
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NASA’s asteroid watch tracks every object that passes within 4.6 million miles of Earth, the threshold for a close approach
Every day, software at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory scans the orbits of thousands of known near-Earth objects and flags ...
Over the weekend, China’s second deep-space mission, Tianwen-2, quietly performed a crucial engine burn to rendezvous with a ...
A small near-earth asteroid is expected to make a close pass by Earth on 21 April 2026, according to data reportedly shared by NASA. The object has be.
The asteroid was discovered on May 10 by astronomers with the Mount Lemmon Survey, an astronomical project based in Arizona’s ...
An asteroid named 2026JH2 will swing by Earth on Monday, passing four times closer than our distance to the moon.
A newly discovered asteroid will pass Earth at a distance of roughly 90,000 km (56,000 miles) tomorrow, in what astronomers ...
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