The Near-Earth Object Surveyor, or NEO Surveyor, is the U.S. space agency’s first infrared space telescope specifically ...

A famously unlucky date is getting a cosmic twist.NASA says the asteroid Apophis will safely pass close to Earth on Friday, ...

It is likely to trigger damage like the Chelyabinsk object that injured 1,500 people in Russia.

The giant asteroid Apophis will make a historically close approach to Earth on April 13, 2029. Scientists have ruled out any risk of Apophis hitting Earth for at least the next century. The 2029 flyby ...

There are tens of thousands of near-Earth objects (NEOs) that represent some of the most easily accessible resources in the ...

WASHINGTON — An asteroid the size of a bus made a relatively close flyby of Earth late Thursday night, according to NASA’s asteroid tracking program. The space rock, known as 2026 EG1, is estimated to ...

Humanity needs to step up its asteroid-hunting game. To date, astronomers have spotted more than 8,000 near-Earth asteroids that are at least 460 feet (140 meters) wide — big enough to wipe out an ...

NASA and other space agencies track thousands of near-Earth objects like this one. There are more than 41,000 known near-Earth asteroids that come relatively close to Earth’s orbit, and scientists are ...

In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically through the system, smashing into each other in collisional cascades. Over time ...