Asteroids

Asteroid 2023 VW5, part of the Aten group, poses no threat; history of Earth encounters.

The mission built at a cost of approximately $330 million was meant to know if a man-made spacecraft can change…

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Center for Near-Earth Object Studies operates Sentry, an automated impact prediction system for asteroids.

The asteroid is expected to reach its closest point to Earth on March 4 at 2:59 am Eastern Time.

This is the closest the asteroid, estimated to be 1.052 km in diameter, has been to Earth since 1933 when…