Near-Earth object

Planet Earth is parting company with an asteroid that's been tagging along as a "mini moon" for the past two months.

The harmless space rock peeled away on Nov. 24, overcome by the stronger tug of the sun's gravity. But it will zip closer for a quick visit in January.

Discovered just a month and a half ago, on August 7, an asteroid is now approaching Earth’s orbit and will arrive on Sunday, September 29.

For about two months, this small cosmic companion will move parallel with Earth as both orbit the Sun. This unusual celestial visitor is a Near Earth Object (NEO), a category that includes small celestial bodies like asteroids and comets.

A asteroid was discovered just a month and a half ago, on August 7, approaching the orbit of Earth and will reach it next Sunday, September 29.

NASA has issued a warning about an asteroid the size of “a stadium” that will approach Earth on Tuesday, September 17.

For only the eighth time in history, scientists detected an asteroid before it made its fiery appearance over Earth

An asteroid large enough to destroy a city has passed between the orbits of the Earth and the Moon, missing both.

The object, named 2023 DZ2, was discovered a month ago.

As predicted by scientists, it passed within 175,000km of the Earth on March 25 after flying past the Moon, BBC News has reported.

Bruce Willis: you can stand down.

A truck-sized asteroid that suddenly loomed out of the darkness a few days ago -- with the Earth in its sights -- sailed harmlessly past us on Thursday, space scientists said.

Despite what we've seen in movies like "Armageddon," no global mission to blow it up or knock it off course with nuclear weapons was required.

A newly discovered comet could be visible to the naked eye as it shoots past Earth and the Sun in the coming weeks for the first time in 50,000 years, astronomers have said.

The comet is called C/2022 E3 (ZTF) after the Zwicky Transient Facility, which first spotted it passing Jupiter in March last year.

Astronomers have discovered that a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid has an unusual accelerating spin that could eventually change its trajectory

An asteroid known as Bennu will pass within half the distance of the Earth to the Moon in the year 2135 but the probability of an impact with our planet in the coming centuries is very slight, scientists said on Aug. 11.

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