A NASA planetary defense mission will ride to space atop a SpaceX rocket two and a half years from now. NEO Surveyor will lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida's Space Coast no earlier than ...

PASADENA, Calif. — After NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, the space agency is gearing up for another project: a spacecraft targeting asteroids. A ...

Picture this. You're sitting at breakfast, scrolling the news, when suddenly headlines scream that a space rock the size of a football stadium is barreling toward Earth. Your coffee goes cold. Your ...

NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor space telescope is currently under construction at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Once launched and operational, it will identify ...

Last March 31 a very small asteroid called 2004 FU162 passed Earth at an altitude of only about 6500 km, the closest of any asteroid discovered by the Spaceguard Survey. From its brightness, this ...

Stories like that of dinosaur extinction have understandably made people fearful of asteroid impacts. NASA is one of the organizations that continually keeps track of asteroids that are 'close' to ...

An asteroid twice the size of a giraffe is due to pass closer to our planet than the moon today. The asteroid, named 2024 XH, is roughly 39 feet in diameter according to NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

An asteroid recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years may have caused some alarm. Don't freak out – yet. Yes, the asteroid has little more than a 1% ...

SGAC and the NEO PG in collaboration with the Minor Planet Centre (MPC) are excited to offer you the opportunity to name an asteroid! Entering is easy: Send us your entry in 50 words or less how you ...

An asteroid the size of a hockey pitch that was first spotted by NASA researchers on Christmas Day has a one-in-83 risk of slamming into Earth in late 2032. The 196-foot space rock is 27 million miles ...

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