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A large near-Earth asteroid. Illustrative image: shutterstock

NASA reassures: an asteroid with a diameter of over one and a half kilometers will pass on Saturday at a safe distance

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A complex and challenging task. The spacecraft landed on the asteroid. Image: Japanese space agency JAXA

This morning, Japan launched the Yabusa-2 spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid

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The orbit of the Apollo object - the near-Earth asteroid 2014 DX110 that was discovered just a week before its expected transit near Earth. Figure: NASA\JPL's Solar System Dynamics Small-Body Database Browser.

Video: Tonight an asteroid passed between us and the moon's orbit. Another one will pass tomorrow

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Probabilistic model of the trajectory of asteroid 2014 AA that entered the atmosphere south of the Cape Verde Islands. Photo by Asteroid Initiatives, LLC

A 3-meter-diameter asteroid fragment crashed over the Atlantic Ocean on January 2

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