NASA’s Asteroid Watch Dashboard has issued a new list of five asteroids on approach, with close passes to Earth expected ...

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

That's why the tracking efforts continue ... This could involve a mission similar to NASA's DART, which altered the path of asteroid Dimorphos pretty spectacularly when it slammed into it in ...

Meet the scientist who helped build NASA's asteroid response ... NASA is directed to lead a new effort to enhance the nation's capabilities for detecting, tracking and characterizing near-Earth ...

An independent review board gave NASA’s Psyche mission the green light and its seal of approval following a scathing review in 2022. The Psyche mission, which will head to the asteroid belt ...

NASA has cleared ... “Yes, the asteroid is probably fairly large, probably between 1,903 and 4,265 feet ” Chodas said in a statement on Monday. Astronomers have been tracking this asteroid ...

NASA later set up the Planetary Defense Coordination Office in 2016 after a watchdog report urged the agency to better organize its asteroid tracking efforts. That office, led by Mr. Johnson ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced Friday that the agency has approved a new infrared space telescope in the effort to help ... a near-Earth object is an asteroid or comet that approaches ...

NASA has begun work on an asteroid-hunting telescope to protect Earth from disaster. NEO Surveyor is a new space telescope made to advance NASA’s planetary defense efforts by finding near ...

On its way to the Trojan swarms, the spacecraft made a pit stop at a rock named Dinkinesh — and the images it sent back revealed that this asteroid ... part of NASA’s broader effort to glean ...

Internal emails from NASA show that the space agency was unaware of asteroid 2019 OK ... other U.S. agencies are leading the international efforts to respond to a possible impact from a near ...

If successful, the OSIRIS-REx mission, a joint effort between NASA and scientists at the University of Arizona, would mark the third asteroid sample, and by far the largest, ever returned to Earth ...