The asteroid has been given a rating of 3 out of 10, indicating a "close encounter, meriting attention by astronomers." ...

OSIRIS clear filter image taken during the flyby of the Rosetta spacecraft at asteroid Lutetia on July 10, 2010. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 28, 2011, issue of Science ...

NASA is set to track a sizable near-Earth object, asteroid 2024 XN1, which is expected to pass relatively close to Earth on December 24. According to Marca, the asteroid was detected only on ...