NASA says Asteroid 2024 EF belongs to the Apollo group of Near-Earth Asteroids, which are Earth-crossing space rocks with semi-major axes larger than Earth's. These asteroids are named after the ...
Asteroid 2024 XS3, a small Apollo asteroid, safely passed Earth at a distance of 3.3 million kilometers on December 18, 2024. This close approach provided astronomers with a valuable opportunity ...
The asteroid's reflectance spectrum matches the characteristics of lunar rocks collected during the Luna 24, Apollo 14, and Apollo 17 missions. Oscar Fuentes-Muñoz, co-author of the study ...
What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through ...