There are a bafflingly large number of asteroids floating around the solar system. Humans have already counted at least 1.4 million of them —and there are most likely more we haven’t seen yet.
The most recent, asteroid 2024 MK, was 500 feet wide, passing within about 184,000 miles (295,000 kilometers) of Earth. ...
Saturday’s asteroid, 2024 MK, will come within 180,000 miles of Earth. On Thursday, meanwhile, asteroid 2011 UL21 flew within 4 million miles.
passed closest to Earth without incident on Thursday. The second, asteroid 2024 MK, will arrive Saturday morning. Though it’s ...
But in Hawaii, the best time to spot the asteroid — which measures about two football fields across — will be about 10 p.m.
An asteroid will whiz harmlessly past Earth on Saturday. With the right equipment and timing, you just might spot it. Called ...
On Saturday (June 29), an asteroid larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza will fly past Earth at about three-quarters the ...
In this artistic rendering, two asteroids fly past Earth. An asteroid that will whiz harmlessly past Earth is called 2024 MK ...
The asteroid, named 2024 MK, will zoom past us closer than the moon orbits the Earth on Saturday morning, and is around the ...