NASA said that asteroid 2024 LY2 belongs to the Apollo asteroid group. Apollo asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after 1862 Apollo, discovered by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth ...

They get their name from the asteroid 1862 Apollo. Amors are Earth-approaching NEAs with orbits that bring them within the orbit of Mars but do not bring them within the orbit of Earth.

The fast-moving asteroid 2023 DZ2 will pass us – safely – at a distance of 107,500 miles, ... Because of its orbit, 2023 DZ2 is considered an Apollo asteroid, or near-Earth asteroid.

Soil-like pebbles in moon samples brought home by Apollo 16 astronauts ... These trapped gasses serve as useful timestamps of space weather processes like solar wind and asteroid impacts that have ...

Apollo 8 got a lot of firsts in the record books. The mission, which launched December 21, 1968, carried a crew of three. A few days after liftoff, Frank Borman II, James Lovell Jr., and William ...

Asteroid DZ2, EarthSky.org reported, is a member of the Apollo family of asteroids and orbits the sun every 3.16 years. The meteor that exploded over Russia’s Ural Mountains in Chelyabinsk in ...

This asteroid is larger than 2021 PH27, with a diameter just under a mile long. It's an Apollo asteroid, meaning that it has an orbit path that could one day force it to come into contact with Earth.

NASA's first effort to retrieve samples from an asteroid will send a capsule that contains extraterrestrial pebbles and dust plunging towards a Utah desert on Sunday.

A NASA spacecraft will fly by Earth on Sunday and drop off what is expected to be at least a cupful of rubble it grabbed from the asteroid Bennu, closing out a seven-year quest.

2023 DZ2 is an Apollo asteroid, meaning it crosses the orbit of the Earth just like the asteroid named 'Apollo' in 1862, which was the first to be observed doing this.

2022 GU6 is classified as an Apollo asteroid, with a diameter approximately between 60m and 150m. (On the larger side, that’s about as tall as the Fuller Building, a 40-story skyscraper in New ...