The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects – some of which could strike the Earth – ended its mission and burned on reentering the atmosphere after ...

Scientists have discovered a “record-breaking” asteroid that is nearly the size of eight football fields. The object, known ...

A strange near-Earth object (NEO) recently spotted orbiting close to our planet turns out to be the booster from a rocket from the 1960s, NASA has announced. Object 2020 SO was at first thought to be ...

The asteroid is currently located in the constellation of Lynx, at a distance of more than 1.9 million miles (3.2 million ...

Is 3I/ATLAS an interstellar spy? Scientists investigate 13 anomalies of the solar system's new visitor, from its 'anti-tail' ...

Far from the bright glare of the Moon, a much smaller companion has been quietly keeping pace with Earth, looping around the ...

Toshi Hirabayashi is a part of several planetary mission teams with NASA, ESA and JAXA through the Georgia Institute of Technology. Yaeji Kim does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is introducing a new Web site that will provide a centralized resource for information on near-Earth objects – those asteroids and comets that can approach Earth. The ...

Telescope facilities across the world are watching the skies for rocky remnants from outer space on a collision course with planet Earth. Currently one or two of these so called ‘Near Earth Objects’ ...