2025 HU isn't the only asteroid approaching the Earth today. NASA is also tracking an airplane-sized space rock known as 2025 GD1, which is estimated to be about 86 feet across and will zip past the ...

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This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

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He said unlike meteorites, which impact Earth, a bolide disintegrates in the atmosphere. This particular meteoroid, he said, was around 1.5 meters (5 feet) in length and posed no threat to the public.