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 ...

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

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

Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...

A colossal asteroid, known as 2014 TN17, is set to make a chillingly close pass by Earth this week, marking the nearest ...

Space exploration is set to see significant advancements in 2025 with major missions including India's Gaganyaan, NASA's ...

A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...

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