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 NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

Surveyor, a $1.4-billion infrared telescope designed to detect asteroids and comets that could pose a threat to Earth.

Ground telescopes have offered our best asteroid data so far, but spotting dark, tumbling rocks from Earth is like finding ...

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...

In 2022, NASA performed a first-of-its-kind test. The agency intentionally crashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid, nudging it just enough to change its trajectory. The mission gave the space ...

For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometers from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometers an hour. It ...

An experimental NASA mission called DART, short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, successfully nudged the path of an asteroid in space in 2022. It was the first such test of its kind.

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work previously appeared ... to calculate more precise models of the asteroid’s trajectory,” NASA added. “That’s the outcome we expected ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission cost over $770 ... AstroForge’s $7 million Odin spacecraft will make it to the asteroid 2022 OB5. It’s also unclear if the company will be able to determine ...