NASA is testing its $1.6 billion NEO Surveyor, the first infrared space telescope designed to detect hazardous near-Earth asteroids and comets. Scheduled for launch in September 2027, it will operate ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ongoing ESA tracking: ESA’s NEO Risk List ranks asteroids by their highest Palermo Scale values, noting estimated size, velocity, and approach dates. Notable close pass: Asteroid 2026 JB will pass ...

Scientists estimate there are thousands of asteroids large enough to destroy a city near Earth. NASA is sending a telescope into space to find them.

Using the shortcut found by tracking the asteroid, it would take just 153 days to get to Mars and return to the Earth.

JWST imaged 2024 YR4 in late March, making it the smallest object the telescope had imaged to date. The data its instruments collected indicate that based on the amount of heat it gives off, 2024 YR4 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — NASA and other agencies are studying a large asteroid that was discovered in 2024. While Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a minute chance of hitting Earth in seven years, the ...

Per NASA’s updated asteroid watch list, Earth will encounter two airplane-sized NEOs today, on April 29, 2026. Asteroid 2026 ...

A meteor cluster reveals an asteroid disintegrating near the Sun. These observations help uncover hidden asteroids and ...