NASA's $1.4 billion NEO Surveyor space telescope is designed to spot and track potentially hazardous asteroids, offering ...

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...

The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, ...

The hefty space rock 2014 TN17 is large enough to wipe out a city, but it will pose no risk to our planet when it sails by ...

As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare ...

The Hechinger Report reports that the University of Arizona, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and the Georgia Institute of ...

In 2022, Nasa's Dart (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission deliberately aimed itself at a harmless – from the Earth's point of view – binary asteroid system consisting of asteroid Didymos ...

A celestial spectacle will take over the night sky on March 13 and 14, when the first Total Lunar Eclipse since 2022 will be visible. If you are a fan of astronomy, this is an even ...

The images the space probe had taken were first released during an live streamed webcast by the European ... the probe is on its way to collect post-impact data from asteroid Dimorphos. In 2022, NASA ...

Deimos is about 15,000 miles from Mars. Scientists have previously speculated that it may actually be a piece of asteroid, not a moon. Hera got as close as 1,000 kilometers, or about 620 miles ...

Europe's HERA mission is aiming to find out how much of an impact a NASA spacecraft made when it deliberately smashed into an asteroid in 2022 in the first-ever test of our planetary defences.