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 ...

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid making its way toward Earth ... As space agencies continue their efforts to explore, sample, and even mine asteroids, these objects are of immense ...

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 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 ...

That was the case until recently — thanks to the expansion of the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) system into the southern hemisphere. ATLAS, funded by NASA and run by the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA says ground telescope data confirmed the DART mission to alter an asteroid's trajectory was successful. Credit: NASA / JHUAPL Rest easy, Earthlings. NASA says its first mission to ...