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An Asteroid Just Streaked Over Antarctica, Becoming the Second Closest Flyby Ever Recorded
Learn how astronomers spotted 2025 TF, an asteroid that passed just 266 miles over Antarctica in early October 2025.
A small asteroid, known as 2025 TF, flew over Antarctica on October 1, 2025, at an altitude of only 266 miles.
A small asteroid flew 266 miles over Antarctica. It was too small to pose a threat, but objects of that size can produce fireballs.
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Newly discovered asteroid to fly extremely close to Earth, closer than the moon on October 15
Asteroid 2025 TP5, discovered just two days before its approach, will fly past Earth on October 15 at a dangerously close ...
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Asteroid Apophis: Animation Shows Asteroid's Nail-Biting Close Approach To Earth In 2029
In April 2029, Apophis is predicted by NASA to come within 32,000 kilometers (20,000 miles) of the Earth's surface. Closer ...
A newly discovered space rock zoomed safely by Earth on Wednesday (Oct. 15) at only about a quarter of the average distance ...
A massive asteroid, 2025 FA22, will safely pass Earth on September 18, 2025, at a distance of 4.6 million miles. Initially considered potentially haza ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) is planning the Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety (RAMSES) mission to the Apophis ...
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NASA saves $20M mission to visit the ‘God of Chaos’ asteroid
NASA’s ambitious $20 million mission to study the ‘God of Chaos’ asteroid, Apophis, has been spared from the brink of ...
On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, ...
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The Second Closest Asteroid Flyby Of Earth Ever Recorded Just Whizzed Over Antarctica
Astronomers have witnessed the second-closest asteroid fly-by ever measured. Or at least we think they have, with government shutdowns preventing NASA from releasing a statement. Luckily, the European ...
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