Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Deep Space Network's Goldstone Solar System Radar took a series of 28 images of asteroid 1997 QK1 on Aug. 21, 2025. - NASA / ...

Only a little more than one week since its initial sighting, a bus-sized asteroid will be making its closest approach to Earth in over a century and it will not be solo. NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

NASA's Goldstone Planetary Radar Observes Fast-Spinning Asteroid This series of 41 radar images obtained by the Deep Space Networks Goldstone Solar System Radar on July 28, 2025, shows the near-Earth ...

3I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the galaxy. By Kenneth Chang For only the third time, astronomers have found ...

Abstract: The Goldstone Solar System Radar (GSSR), part of the Deep Space Network (DSN), utilizes a 70 meter antenna and a 500kW CW transmitter powered by two VKX-7864B, 250kW CW X-band (8560 MHz) ...

NASA is currently monitoring asteroid 2024 PT5, which is passing by Earth this month at a safe distance. Discovered in August 2024, the 33-foot-wide object has followed a path similar to Earth’s, ...

During this next close pass, NASA will use the Goldstone Solar System Radar antenna in California's Mojave Desert, which is part of the space agency's Deep Space Network, to track the asteroid before ...

Earth is about to lose its tiny bonus moon. 2024 PT5, a 33-foot-wide asteroid that hung around Earth for two months, is expected to carry on with its journey through the cosmos this week. We'll lose ...

The “mini moon” that’s been tagging along in Earth’s orbit recently is departing on Monday — leaving behind a scientific surprise: It may have once been part of our own actual moon. Asteroid 2024 PT5, ...

Earth is bidding farewell to a tiny asteroid that joined its orbit for nearly two months. The asteroid, known as 2024 PT5, is set to be drawn away from Earth by the powerful pull of the sun on Monday.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- 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 will peel away today, overcome ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — 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 will peel away on Monday, overcome ...