This series of 41 radar images obtained by the Deep Space Network's Goldstone Solar System Radar on July 28, 2025, shows the near-Earth asteroid 2025 OW as it made its close approach with our planet. The asteroid safely passed at about 400,000 miles (640,000 kilometers), or 1.6 times the distance from Earth to the Moon. The asteroid was discovered on July 4, 2025, by the NASA-funded Pan-STARRS2 survey telescope on Haleakala in Maui, Hawaii. These Goldstone observations suggest that 2025 OW is ab

NASA's Deep Space Network’s Goldstone planetary radar recently had a busy few days observing two asteroids as they safely passed by Earth. The team captured impressive detail of the #asteroids, including a moonlet orbiting one of them. Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/4coQ77X | Space 360