Near Earth Objects

Asteroid 2019 VF1, 150 m in diameter, to fly really close to Earth today at 9.40 pm

The asteroid has been classified as a Near-Earth Object by NASA, but it will not hit Earth this time around.

Airplane-sized asteroid detected at 11th hour sneaks up close, whizzes past Earth

If the asteroid had hit the Earth, it would have wiped out an entire city & caused inordinate damage.

Large asteroid expected to do a fly-by of Earth at closer distance than the Moon

GC6 asteroid will narrowly miss the Earth on it rotation around the Sun but it will be back in November.

Pan-STARRS telescope, 'Universe in a Box' has enough data to fill 30,000 Wikipedias

The newest download of data from the 1.4 billion-pixel telescope camera is roughly 1.6 petabytes.

Interstellar visitor Oumuamua could be an alien messenger, Harvard scientists admit

The possibility that Oumuamua could be a light-sail produced by aliens exists: Researchers.

'Dead' comet resembling a skull to fly past Earth on 11 Nov, days after Halloween

The asteroid, while 1,300-feet wide, will appear far too small to view with the naked eye this year.

Asteroid flying-by next week isn't on a collision course with us, NASA reassures

Breathe, Earthlings, 2016 NF23 isn't ramming into us for at least another 100 years

ESA to test detection and tracking of near-Earth objects during close flyby of asteroid on 12 October

The space rock will zoom by harmlessly at a distance of about 44,000 kilometres (27,300 miles), an eighth of the distance from the Earth to the Moon.

NASA to use asteroid flyby to test tracking capabilities of its worldwide observatory network

NASA will use large telescopes to detect and re-establish the asteroid's precise trajectory.

Up next for Nasa, missions to Venus and near-earth objects by 2020

In its quest to explore Venus, near-earth objects and bizarre metal asteroids, Nasa has zeroed on five key science investigations among 27 proposals through its ambitious Discovery programme.