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 ...
Surveyor, a $1.4-billion infrared telescope designed to detect asteroids and comets that could pose a threat to Earth.
NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...
Ground telescopes have offered our best asteroid data so far, but spotting dark, tumbling rocks from Earth is like finding ...
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...
The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...
Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ...
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...
A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...
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 ...