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Planetary Defense: NASA Radar Captures Two Large Asteroids Zooming Past Earth


The Deep Space Network’s Goldstone planetary radar had a busy few days observing asteroids 2024 MK and 2011 UL21 as they safely passed Earth. Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California recently tracked two asteroids as they flew by our planet. One turned out to h

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