As hearts across the globe flutter this weekend for Valentine’s Day, spare a thought for a long-dead space probe, which for 20 years has sat in forlorn silence and solitude on a tiny peanut-shaped ...

The Planetary Society continues to fund the search for potentially hazardous comets and asteroids that orbit close to our planet by awarding Gene Shoemaker Near Earth Object Grants to five researchers ...

Just as it seemed that the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft was going to be shut off – it has been given a new lease on life – albeit a short one. After a year in a close-orbit study of asteroid 433 Eros, a ...

Feb. 12 turned out to be a mission planner’s dream – providing NEAR team members with more scientific and engineering information than they ever expected from the carefully designed series of descent ...