NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office is actively building the first space telescope designed from scratch to hunt ...

NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor — the agency's first purpose-built infrared space telescope designed specifically to detect ...

NASA says five notable asteroids will safely pass Earth in the second half of 2026, helping scientists improve asteroid tracking and strengthen planetary defense.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA raised eyebrows earlier this month when it announced that astronomers were tracking a massive asteroid that poses a small, ...

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Space agency to 'identify, capture and relocate' an asteroid to advance knowledge of asteroids and defend Earth from crashes ...

The rock is hurtling through our cosmic neighborhood at a zippy 8,768 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids out near Jupiter. It will be the second asteroid ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines in February with the news that it had a chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, as determined by an analysis from NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies ...

Unlike NASA's approach of launching two separate spacecraft, China reportedly plans to send its observer and impactor ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids near Jupiter. It will be the second asteroid ...