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An artist’s impression of an asteroid that orbits closer to the Sun than Earth’s orbit. Image credit: DOE / FNAL / DECam / CTIO / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / J. da Silva / Spaceengine.

Astronomers Discover Three Large Near-Earth Asteroids

Nov 1, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-m telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory have discovered two...

An artist’s illustration of what the near-Earth asteroid Phaethon might look like up close. Image credit: Heather Roper.

Astronomers Measure Change in Rotation Period of Near-Earth Asteroid Phaethon

Oct 18, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

3200 Phaethon, one of the largest potentially hazardous asteroids, rotates once every 3.6 hours, and that rotation period is decreasing by about 4 milliseconds...

Asteroid 2016 HO3 has an orbit around the Sun that keeps it as a constant companion of our planet. This is an artist’s impression of an asteroid. Image credit: Mark A. Garlick, Space-art.co.uk / University of Warwick / University of Cambridge.

Intermediate-Sized Asteroid to Safely Pass Earth Next Month

Jan 22, 2018 by News Staff

An intermediate-sized asteroid discovered sixteen years ago will fly safely past Earth on February 4, 2018 at 4:30 p.m. EST (1:30 p.m. PST, 21:30 UTC). This...

These colorized radar images show the near-Earth asteroid Phaethon. At time of closest approach on December 16, 2017, Phaethon was about 1.1 million miles (1.8 million km) away. The encounter is the closest the asteroid will come to Earth until 2093. Image credit: Arecibo Observatory / NASA / NSF.

Astronomers Obtain Images of Near-Earth Asteroid Phaethon

Dec 26, 2017 by News Staff

A sequence of radar images of the near-Earth asteroid (3200) Phaethon was obtained in December 2017 by astronomers using the NASA-funded planetary radar...

ESA’s AIM spacecraft watches DART impact Didymoon. Image credit: ESA / Science Office.

AIDA: NASA and ESA Announce Double Mission to Asteroid Didymos

Oct 5, 2015 by News Staff

The Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment (AIDA) mission, a joint ESA-NASA cooperative project, will be the first space experiment to investigate...