Sources: USA Today
A previously undetected Apollo group asteroid 2020 JJ passes 4,350 miles (7,000 kilometres) away from Earth. It is the closest near-Earth object since 2019 UN13. 2020-05-4
NASA's "Dawn" spacecraft exhausts all of its hydrazine fuel propellant and without a functioning maneuvering system enters into uncontrolled motion around dwarf planet Ceres, thus ending its 11-year mission. 2018-11-1
The United States government releases a Near-Earth Object Preparedness Plan for reducing risks of asteroid or comet impacts. 2018-06-20
Hyperbolic asteroids A-2017 U7 and A-2018 C2 are announced, although their orbit suggests they are not interstellar in origin. 2018-03-4
NASA releases new pictures from the Dawn spacecraft as it approaches from a distance of 238,000 miles of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Dawn will go into orbit around the dwarf planet on March 6. 2015-01-19
Research shows that the Chelyabinsk meteor was the remnants of an asteroid that collided with another asteroid 290 million years before entering the Earth's atmosphere over Russia in February of last year. 2014-05-23
Asteroid 2013 TV135 is discovered with an approximately 1 in 63,000 chance of colliding with the earth in 2032. 2013-10-18
NASA scientists are planning to capture a 500 ton near-Earth asteroid, relocate it and turn it into a space station for astronauts on their route to Mars after 2025. 2012-12-27
Scientists report Chinese deep-space probe Chang'e 2 successfully took a series of images of the asteroid 4179 Toutatis during flyby on 13 December. 2012-12-16
4179 Toutatis, an asteroid about 3 miles wide, passes within 4.3 million miles or 18 lunar distances of the Earth. 2012-12-12