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An aircraft carrier-sized asteroid makes a safe, close flyby of Earth on Nov. 8, 2011.
Nov. 3, 2011
This animation illustrates the orbit of 2010 TK7 (green dots), the first known Earth Trojan asteroid, discovered by NEOWISE, the asteroid-hunting portion of NASA's WISE mission. .
July 27, 2011
Movie showing asteroid 2012 DA14 flying safely by Earth, as seen by the Gingin Observatory in Australia around the time of its closest approach. .
Feb. 15, 2013
This movie of asteroid 2014 JO25 was generated using radar data collected by NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar in California's Mojave Desert. .
April 19, 2017
NASA Administrator James M. Beggs has approved the addition of an asteroid flyby option to the Galileo mission. The option will permit post-launch decision to fly by the asteroid 29 Amphitrite in December 1986. .
Jan. 17, 1985
Scientists were surprised and delighted to detect - for the first time - an interstellar asteroid passing through our solar system. .
Nov. 20, 2017
Asteroid Redirect Mission Ends Development The Asteroid Redirect Mission was intended to develop a robotic spacecraft to visit a large near-Earth asteroid and collect a multi-ton boulder from its surface. .
Published: Dec. 18, 2018
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have measured the size of an asteroid candidate for NASA's proposed Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM). .
June 19, 2014
Scientists have updated information about 2014 AA, the first asteroid discovered this year. .
Jan. 2, 2014
NASA's Dawn mission is getting ready to launch on an unprecedented tour of two residents of the asteroid belt. .
Sept. 26, 2007