The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, ...
New Webb Telescope data reconfirms that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to Earth during its 2032 flyby. As for the Moon, ...
The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet at a zippy 28,655 miles per hour, according to the space agency.
New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...
YR4, once referred to as a ‘city-killer’ with the potential to cause regional devastation and impact the climate, is no ...
An asteroid discovered over 200 years ago which is roughly the size of Germany would have catastrophic consequences for life ...
NASA is about to begin a massive hunt for hidden asteroids, and may uncover city-destroying space rocks we’ve missed.
A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...
Surveyor, a $1.4-billion infrared telescope designed to detect asteroids and comets that could pose a threat to Earth.