The NEO Surveyor mission is the first space telescope that'll be dedicated to locating asteroids that could threaten Earth, ...

One of the asteroids will come as close as within 120,000 miles from the Earth, soaring past at over 41,000 miles per hour.

That's why the tracking efforts continue ... This could involve a mission similar to NASA's DART, which altered the path of ...

A gigantic asteroid, roughly the height of the Eiffel Tower, is heading towards Earth for what astronomers are calling a "close approach".

By late February, experts at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory had analyzed new data submitted by astronomers worldwide. The refined results ruled out the possibility of the asteroid hitting Earth, ...

The telescope is one of the asteroid discovery programs funded by NASA to scan the sky in search ... and the Very Large Telescope in Chile to track the asteroid, which is currently more than ...

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ... JPL asteroid risk list," NASA said. "It is also possible its impact probability will continue to rise." ESA is also tracking ...

led space mission to have a spacecraft fly by the asteroid to get more information; or creating an effort to build a ... In the meantime, NASA is on track to launch a new asteroid-finding ...

A gigantic asteroid, 2003 MH4, equivalent in size to the Eiffel Tower, is set to make a close approach to Earth this Saturday ...

Here’s the scenario: The government has confirmed NASA astronomers ... cooperative efforts can and can’t currently accomplish in the face of an impending asteroid strike.

NASA debuted an original documentary on Wednesday that highlights three local researchers at the center of the global effort to track and possibly ... a cape pushing an asteroid away, but her ...