To save ourselves from a killer asteroid, first we have to find it. A spacecraft now under construction at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in may be our best hope. The Near-Earth Object Surveyor is a ...
Surveyor, a $1.4-billion infrared telescope designed to detect asteroids and comets that could pose a threat to Earth.
The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...
The European Space Agency announced Thursday the Gaia spacecraft was turned off after a decade of data gathering.
NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...
A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...
This story was originally published by Grist with the headline The weirdest ways scientists are mining for critical minerals, ...
Around 66 million years ago an asteroid hurtled towards Earth and smashed into the planet, setting off a chain of events that ...
A "potentially hazardous" Apollo-class asteroid will be making its closest pass by Earth in more than 100 years this week.