A quartet of large asteroids are zooming by Earth this week, but they'll all pass our planet with millions of miles to spare, according to NASA.
The near-Earth asteroids are all passing within 4.6 million miles (7.5 million kilometers) of our planet — close enough to make NASA's potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) list — but none will come closer than 2.2 million miles (3.5 million km), according to NASA's weekly chart of ...
Asteroid named after pope behind Gregorian calendar reform
ROME (AP) — Pope Gregory XIII, the 16th century pontiff responsible for what is today known as the Gregorian calendar, now has another, celestial claim to fame.
A working group of the International Astronomical Union has named an asteroid after him, the Vatican Observatory said Tuesday.
New Hubble footage shows exact moment a NASA spacecraft slammed into an asteroid 7 million miles ...
The famed Hubble Space Telescope tracked dramatic hour-by-hour changes in deep space caused by a NASA probe's deliberate asteroid crash.
The newly released Hubble movie begins with footage from roughly 1.3 hours after impact, showing Dimorphos and Didymos at such a distance that the two space rocks cannot be resolved individually.
4 big asteroids are flying by Earth this week, but don't worry. They aren't getting too close.… https://t.co/qB2SbDZoVA SPACEdotcom (from NYC) Tue Feb 28 17:32:37 +0000 2023
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