Eyes on Asteroids - NASA/JPL
Explore the 3D world of Asteroids, Comets and NEOs. Learn about past and future missions, tracking and predicting orbits, and close approaches to Earth.
Thanks to NASA, you probably won’t have to worry about this asteroid …
19 hours ago · The asteroid won't come close enough to Earth for deep space radar observations until shortly before its closest approach in 2032.
NASA Shares Observations of Recently-Identified Near Earth Asteroid
Jan 29, 2025 · The asteroid, which is estimated to be about 130 to 300 feet wide, caught astronomers’ attention when it rose on the NASA automated Sentry risk list on Dec. 31, 2024. The Sentry list includes any known near-Earth asteroids that have a non-zero probability of impacting Earth in the future.
Asteroid 2024 YR4 reaches level 3 on the Torino Scale
Jan 31, 2025 · NASA analysis of a near-Earth asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, indicates it has a small chance of impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032.
NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Sample Reveals Mix of Life’s Ingredients
Jan 29, 2025 · In this video frame, Jason Dworkin holds up a vial that contains part of the sample from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) mission in 2023. Dworkin is the mission’s project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Newly spotted asteroid has a tiny chance of hitting Earth in 2032
Jan 29, 2025 · CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said Wednesday. Scientists put the odds of a strike at slightly more than 1%.
Next Five Asteroid Approaches - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory …
4 days ago · The Asteroid Watch dashboard tracks asteroids and comets that will make relatively close approaches to Earth. The dashboard displays the date of closest approach, approximate object diameter, relative size and distance from Earth for each encounter.
Study Finds Earth’s Small Asteroid Visitor Likely Chunk of ... - NASA
Jan 22, 2025 · Typically, asteroids — like the one depicted in this artist’s concept — originate from the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, but a small population of near-Earth objects may also come from the Moon’s surface after being ejected into space by an impact.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission to Asteroid Bennu
Jan 30, 2025 · OSIRIS-REx is the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid. It returned to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, to drop off a capsule with material from asteroid Bennu. …
Asteroids Exploration - Science@NASA
Nov 3, 2024 · NASA has sent several robotic spacecraft to encounter asteroids up close. The agency also uses telescopes to scan the skies for asteroids. Here are highlights from some of those missions.