The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 before a perilous close approach ...

A European Vega-C rocket will launch tomorrow carrying the Sentinel-1C mission into orbit in the rocket's first return to flight since it failed in 2022. The European Space Agency (ESA) is launching ...

NASA is about to begin a massive hunt for hidden asteroids, and may uncover city-destroying space rocks we’ve missed.

An asteroid-chasing spacecraft just swung past Mars on Wednesday. As it zipped by, it took hundreds of shots of the Red ...

The spacecraft captured the Red Planet and its enigmatic moons, Deimos and Phobos, marking its first deep-space imaging ...

NASA's $1.4 billion NEO Surveyor telescope aims to detect and monitor dangerous asteroids, providing early warnings to ...

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 ...

To save ourselves from a killer asteroid, first we have to find it. A spacecraft now under construction at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in may be our best hope. The Near-Earth Object Surveyor is a ...

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