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 ...

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 ...

The asteroid is currently located in the constellation of Lynx, at a distance of more than 1.9 million miles (3.2 million ...

Astronomers analyzing data from Vera C. Rubin Observatory have discovered the fastest-ever spinning asteroid with a diameter ...

NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor space telescope is currently under construction at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Once launched and operational, it will identify ...

Last March 31 a very small asteroid called 2004 FU162 passed Earth at an altitude of only about 6500 km, the closest of any asteroid discovered by the Spaceguard Survey. From its brightness, this ...

An asteroid twice the size of a giraffe is due to pass closer to our planet than the moon today. The asteroid, named 2024 XH, is roughly 39 feet in diameter according to NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

A massive asteroid the size of a bus is forecast to shoot past the Earth tomorrow. The asteroid, named 2024 VK3, is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Center for Near-Earth Object ...

A small asteroid careened toward Earth before burning up Tuesday night above northern Siberia in Russia, creating a blazing fireball in the sky witnessed across the region. The space rock, which was ...

SGAC and the NEO PG in collaboration with the Minor Planet Centre (MPC) are excited to offer you the opportunity to name an asteroid! Entering is easy: Send us your entry in 50 words or less how you ...